I don't know the answer to your question Greg, but Gary Huss at UH Hawaii Institute of Geophysics and Planetology showed me a huge Ureilite slab that was cut on a wire saw that had large 2-5mm grooves in it. He said that the diamonds were so hard that the wire went around them in the matrix of the stone and created those grooves. Unreal. I wish I had thought to take a picture of it.
Here is a picture I did get of Gary with some of his specimens he shared with participants of our HISTAR workshop last summer: http://astroday.net/Images/HISTAR09/HS12.jpg gary On Dec 1, 2009, at 8:48 AM, Greg Stanley wrote: > > List: > > I was wondering if anyone knows which Ureilite contains the most diamonds, > and how much (perhaps by percent) it contains. I've read that they are often > difficult to cut because of the diamonds in the matrix. > > Much Thanks, > > Greg S. > > _________________________________________________________________ > Get gifts for them and cashback for you. Try Bing now. > http://www.bing.com/shopping/search?q=xbox+games&scope=cashback&form=MSHYCB&publ=WLHMTAG&crea=TEXT_MSHYCB_Shopping_Giftsforthem_cashback_1x1 > ______________________________________________ > http://www.meteoritecentral.com > Meteorite-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list Gary Fujihara AstroDay Institute 105 Puhili Place, Hilo, HI 96720 (808) 640-9161, [email protected] http://astroday.net ______________________________________________ http://www.meteoritecentral.com Meteorite-list mailing list [email protected] http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
