Yes, I can vouch that Calcalong Creek is the most expensive meteorite at this time. Earlier this year I sold a tiny fragment of Calcalong, 0.002g (2 mg), for more per gram than any of the prices quoted below. And I sold it very fast, it never even appeared on my website. Has anyone else sold or bought any Calcalong Creek this year? Anne M. Black _http://www.impactika.com/_ (http://www.impactika.com/) [email protected]_ (mailto:[email protected]) President, I.M.C.A. Inc. _http://www.imca.cc/_ (http://www.imca.cc/) In a message dated 11/28/2010 12:43:58 PM Mountain Standard Time, [email protected] writes: Hi Stuart and List,
Questions like this can be tricky, depending on the information sources available. For example... I once paid $100 for a 1mg speck of Sylacauga. That amounts to a staggering $100,000/gram. Even further.... I once traded for a 1mg speck of Lafayette. In the process of moving the speck to another gemjar, the speck fractured into two pieces - one larger, one smaller. I sold the smaller sub-speck for $100. I would wager that the speck weighed less than 1/2 milligram. So the selling price on that was about $200,000 per gram or more. >From everything I have read or seen, $200K per gram exceeds any known auction price or selling price for a meteorite (per gram). Of course, I wasn't around back before the internet and during the opening days of the Saharan gold rush when lunars and martians were selling for astronomical prices. During those days, Calcalong Creek was exceedingly-expensive. It is indeed possible that some intrepid soul paid more than $200K/gram for a speck of it. Best regards, MikeG ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike Gilmer - Galactic Stone & Ironworks Meteorites Website - http://www.galactic-stone.com Facebook - http://www.facebook.com/galacticstone News Feed - http://www.galactic-stone.com/rss/126516 Twitter - http://twitter.com/galacticstone Meteorite Top List - http://meteorite.gotop100.com EOM - http://www.encyclopedia-of-meteorites.com/collection.aspx?id=1564 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- On 11/28/10, Stuart McDaniel <[email protected]> wrote: > Is it written somewhere that this IS the most expensive per gram?? Because > internet searches turns up all different ones as "the most expensive ever". > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Shawn Alan > Sent: Sunday, November 28, 2010 1:50 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [meteorite-list] BLACK FRIDAY POP QUIZ Answer > > Hello Listers, > > The answer and winner to the Black Friday Pop Quiz is Calcalong Creek and > the winner is Ty. Thank all for submitting your answers. > > > Shawn Alan > IMCA 1633 > eBaystore > http://shop.ebay.com/photophlow/m.html > ______________________________________________ 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
