Robert, You are a class act. This is good information as many of us had no idea how this works in the real world. Now we know. thank you for sharing. Carl -- Carl or Debbie Esparza Meteoritemax
---- Robert Ward <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello Sonny, List, As per Art's request I will not discuss the Nevada > issue, but I am happy to address Sonny's request that I disclose the > agreements I have in regards to the shares on my hunts. On desert > hunts the finder keeps all of his common chondrites, we do split rare > achondrites, lunars, carbonaceous chondrites, rumurutiites, ect. The > thought of my 22.61 kilo DHO 1431 oriented nose cone having been cut > in half so that my partner could get his share is unimaginable to me. > Also, if one finds a broken individual and your partner finds the > other piece, let's say ten feet away, that piece belongs to the > original finder, and that person calls the shots on how the strewn > field is hunted from that point on. All of our agreements are made > before we even step foot on an airplane, this prevents any > misunderstandings. As far as Glorieta Mountain is concerned, every > person I have hunted with that has found meteorites kept their finds, > Patrick Hermann, Robert Haag, myself, Shauna Russell, Jim Strope. I > feel that if you work for it, it was meant for you. On large scale > projects such as Springwater we do split equally, but this is a mining > project essentially, we all have a lot of money invested, and all open > ground gets covered, the 'luck of the hunt' is not such of a factor, > it was simply in your grid area. Sonny, I hope this public statement > answers you questions. May I suggest you have a contract in writing > with your partners, and the land owners in the future to prevent these > recurrent problems. Regards, Robert Ward. > ______________________________________________ > Visit the Archives at > http://www.meteoritecentral.com/mailing-list-archives.html > Meteorite-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list ______________________________________________ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteoritecentral.com/mailing-list-archives.html Meteorite-list mailing list [email protected] http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list

