Yes but..
I bet 90% of material in our collections was collected from land owned
by someone else, or not declared
(I bet most of the PF's collected in the streets weren't declared to the
US government, for exapmple)
It just goes with the territory, most geological specimens are extracted
from
Denmark: export forbidden.
Even keeping it for youself is forbidden.
It has to be turned over to the geological museum in Copenhagen. they
must in return pay you a reward.
Best
Lars
- Original Message -
From: Pelé Pierre-Marie [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: MeteoriteList
Dear Pelé,
You said:
I start with 4 easy countries ;-)
Australia : export forbidden
Canada : export forbidden
This is not true.
I have imported Mundrabilla, Henbury and Broken Hill directly from
Australia into the US with proper export papers as have many others.
You can also buy a very rare
Finland: we don´t have an exact law, but the system is quite same with
Danmark,
reward can also be a part of a meteorite (over 30 years from the last
found).
Naturally you can have some finnish ones in trades from the NHM of
Finland...;-
best,
pekka s
Lars Pedersen wrote:
Denmark: export
Any fall within the geographical boundries of India is
to be handed over the the Geological Survey of India,
which calls its self the sole custodian of meteorites.
We are supposed to hand it over to them immediately or
they will confiscate it applying force.
This law is old and dated and needs to
Great, this is the whacko that wrote a paper trying to urge that all
meteorites should be conficated from private owners and given to scientists
only.
Mike Farmer
- Original Message -
From: Robert Verish [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Meteorite-list Meteoritecentral
You know if you want to create a website like that
there is a better way than asking list members (Where
among other things lurkers who would rather the
general public not own meteorites abound and might try
and sabotage your efforts).
I have found that embassies are very forthcoming -
although
, 2005 1:41 AM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Meteorite hunting : is it legal ?
Dear Pelé,
You said:
I start with 4 easy countries ;-)
Australia : export forbidden
Canada : export forbidden
This is not true.
I have imported Mundrabilla, Henbury and Broken Hill directly from
Australia into the US
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