Hi John, Great photos! They prompted me to look over my slice again. The two shiny metal blebs in the grey-blue lithology measure 3/4-1mm across. They are very distinct. Closer to the boundary between grey-blue and brown, there are a couple others but they're not as reflective and appear altered. I checked the brown matrix very carefully on both sides of the slice and did find one, fairly shiny metal bleb and a few, small altered bits of metal. In any case, the parts that have the strongest attraction to a magnet are highly altered, very dark veins that have a flow pattern in them. Bob
> > > On Jan 9, 2008 1:03 AM, Kashuba <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Phil, List, > > > > I put a couple slides of this material under the 'scope and found only very > > small bits of metal in the blue lithology - and then, only in brownish areas > > of it. (Yeah, but the slice is from a distinctly blue sample.) The brown > > lithology had small, but naked eye size blebs of metal. It sounds like > > brown, metal and magnetic are closely related. And that the blue lithology > > started out with very little metal. > > > > I just added three pictures to the bottom of this page: > > > > http://johnkashuba.com/Pages/Meteorite%20Pages/Pictures/NWA2965EL3.htm# > > > > Regards, > > > > - John > > > > John Kashuba > > Ontario, California > > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Phil > > Morgan > > Sent: Tuesday, January 08, 2008 5:17 PM > > To: [email protected] > > Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] RFS Picture of the Day Jan. 8 / > > weirdproperties of NWA ... > > > > I find it interesting that the blue material is usually mentioned as being > > less weathered but I've never seen any with visible metal but I have found > > shiny iron flecks in the brown material. > > > > My small blue stone was encased in more of a "rind" than any of my brown > > stones if that fact is interesting at all. > > > > Anybody have the blue material with visible metal? > > > > Regards, > > Phil > > > > ______________________________________________ > > http://www.meteoritecentral.com > > Meteorite-list mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list > > > > > > ______________________________________________ > > http://www.meteoritecentral.com > > Meteorite-list mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list > > > ______________________________________________ http://www.meteoritecentral.com Meteorite-list mailing list [email protected] http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
