If it's done chemically then it is called dissolving, not melting.
Melting is done with heat and it would destroy the olivines. Olivine is
used to create a slag when melting iron ore and forms a liquid layer on
top of the melted iron.
/Göran
Mike Miller wrote:
Yes the entire meteorites are "melted" (chemically) and all is lost
except for the olivine.
On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 9:15 AM, Michael Gilmer <[email protected]> wrote:
Are these meteorites actually being "melted down" for their peridot?
What happens to the rest of the meteorite? I was under the assumption
that the peridots in question were salvaged from badly-oxidized
specimens or were culled from peridots that fell out of the matrix. I
didn't realize whole pallasites were being rendered down to extract
the peridots.
Best regards,
MikeG
On 2/21/11, Mike Miller <[email protected]> wrote:
Just so we keep things straight the Admire meteorites are the ones
being melted down for their peridot and also the strewn field where
the landowner lives that was given big expectations about the returns
of the meteorites found on his land.
On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 8:30 AM, <[email protected]> wrote:
Adam,
"One of the main problems is with trust."
Speaking of trust. Is there a way to certify this material from Earth
peridot?
Wait until the eBay *posers* get word of this new Space Gem.
Kaching, (sp)?
Carl
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---- Adam Hupe <[email protected]> wrote:
One of the main problems is with trust. This strewn field has been
available for
over 100 years and for all practical purposes now may be closed. It only
takes
one or two angry landowners to shut down the entire area to meteorite
hunters.
News of fraud, lawsuits and unpaid promised large sums of money, real or
imagined spread like wildfire through these rural communities.
The quicker this is resolved, the better. The hunting tradition in this
area
dates back to the Kimberly's, Nininger and Haag. It would be a shame to
see it
permanently off-limits now.
Unfortunately, I witnessed the same thing with with the avocation of
treasure
hunting which still has not recovered after 25 years. Property owners
used to
grant permission freely to search but this is a rarity these days.
Happy Hunting,
Adam
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