[meteorite-list] Arizona's Meteor Crater Is Now Money Pit

From: MexicoDoug_at_aol.com <MexicoDoug_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Mon Jul 18 01:26:10 2005
Message-ID: <14.49600d5e.300c9767_at_aol.com>

Ron, List, The legend lives on!

For an idea of what was also probably in Barringer's dreams, take a look at
this article from a British Newspaper, the Penny Illustrated (September 14,
1912), in the last year of its over 50 year run...for a succinct account of
the "Monster Diamond" suspected at the bottom of the "crater at the top of
Meteor Mountain" as it seems the high plains were mistakenly called (unless Walt
Disney built a prototype there too)... Arizona had become a state exactly 7
months before this was written...when Barringer was still gearing up for his
ultimate, dramatically failed adventure.

page 20, "Penny Illustrated" (September 14, 1912)

"Search for a Monster Diamond"
There is now in active operation what is probably the most wonderful mining
venture ever recorded. The object of the quest is an enormous meteor which
struck the earth ages ago, and is believed to be practically a solid diamond
worth untold millions of pounds. The scene of this amazing mining operation
is Meteor Mountain, in the heart of the Arizona desert, in the southern part
of the United States. The top of the mountain is hollowed out into a huge
bowl-shaped depression about 600 ft. deep and perhaps a mile across, much like a
volcanic crater, and there is a belief that this crater marks the place
where a giant meteorite, as large as the circumference of the bowl would
indicate, struck the earth many thousands of years ago and buried itself deep in the
bowels of the earth. The theory that the main body of the meteor may prove
to be one huge diamond is based on the finding of gems in scattered fragments
and on the opinion of Sir William Crookes that the bottomless bores, known as
"diamond pipes," in which these gems are usually found are the result of
falling meteors.

Saludos, Doug


En un mensaje con fecha 07/17/2005 11:24:48 PM Mexico Daylight Time,
baalke_at_zagami.jpl.nasa.gov escribe:


http://durangoherald.com/asp-bin/article_generation.asp?article_type=travel&ar
ticle_path=/travel/travel050717_1.htm

Arizona's Meteor Crater is now money pit
by Austin Richardson
The Durango Herald (Colorado)
July 17, 2005
Received on Mon 18 Jul 2005 01:25:59 AM PDT