[meteorite-list] Mongolia -Gobi Desert

From: Paul Dudley <pdudley_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 09:54:06 2004
Message-ID: <001701c1b905$547344e0$278469d1_at_eznet.net>

Don't get your hopes up. Mongolia doesn't allow exporting of any rocks or
natural materials. When we visited there they even confiscated a small bag
of Gobi Desert dune sand that my wife had collected.

Perhaps they would make exceptions with the proper permits, etc., but from
what I have heard, they are still very strict. Sometimes they allow museums
to remove materials for study, but they are still considered the property of
the Mongolian people, and it must eventually be returned.

I don't know if they have a formal meteorite policy, however. Maybe they
would see the export of meteorites as a revenue source. I suspect China
would be a better bet than Mongolia.
--Paul



----- Original Message -----
From: "Rick Nowak" <internationalmeteoritesociety_at_yahoo.com>
To: <meteorite-list_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Monday, February 18, 2002 8:35 PM
Subject: [meteorite-list] Mongolia -Gobi Desert


> One of the great deserts and semidesert regions of
> the world, the Gobi stretches across Central Asia over
> large areas of Mongolia and China. It occupies an arc
> of land 1,000 mi (1,609 km) long and 300-600 mi
> (500-1,000 km) wide, with an estimated area of 500,000
> sq mi (1,300,000 sq km). Since NWA and Oman are being
> hit hard for meteorites I contacted the US Embassy in
> Mongolia who will pursue their avenues to see if
> meteorites can be bought and exported from Mongolia.
> Let's see what turns up...........
>
>
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