[meteorite-list] a little collector advice........

From: dean bessey <deanbessey_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 10:02:27 2004
Message-ID: <LAW2-F1083b6uIU1Gj00001c328_at_hotmail.com>

>Not true. In fact, a good proportion of non-hot desert witnessed >falls
>have increased in price. Some tremendously! Pultsuk, Mocs, >Johnstown, New
>Concord, Monroe, Homestead...shall I keep >going....Allende, Millbillillie,
>even Juancheng! There are others >that have gone down, mainly the SNCs and
>Lunars. Directly linked to >the "desert gold rush".
Lets see. Millbillillie was $20 a gram teo years ago but was $7 a gram in
tucson
One dealer was offering allende for $3 a gram in tucson and it was $6 a year
ago.
Johnstown was $200 a while ago and is now under $100. Somebody even posted
to this list (Or was it the IMCA list) saying that he say Johnstown listed
at $25.
Zagami was $2000 a gram 3 years ago and recently in the $300 to $500 range.
Thought sounds like the prices of your non desert meteorites have been
rising lately.
If no other desert shergotite or lunar was ever found then zagami would
still be $2000 a gram now and the only lunar (Cacalong creek) would still be
a million dollars a gram.
The desert meteorites have brought down the price of all meteorites to a
reasonable level.
It couldent be further from the truth to say that desert meteorite prices
have fallen and others have risen.
Collectors often couldent care less where there a type sample is from. All
CO3s are cheap because of the Libyan find. When a CO3 can be bought for $20
a gram fewer people is going to pay $100 for another one. If they just want
a CO3 sample they will buy the libyan CO3. Because of the Libyan find other
CO3s are selling less than they would otherwise.
Do you honestly think that you would still be able to get zagami for $500 a
gram if no desert SNC was ever found? Of course you dont. You know that the
price of non desert meteorites has not risen in the past 18 months. They
have fallen bigtime like the desert meteorites have.
DEAN

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Received on Tue 12 Mar 2002 08:48:22 PM PST