[meteorite-list] Re: Fukang

From: John Birdsell <johnbirdsell_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Mon Oct 31 12:06:45 2005
Message-ID: <20051031170642.37029.qmail_at_web51505.mail.yahoo.com>

Hi Michael. Yes, what you said was that:
 
"It [Fukang] was being offered at less than 10Euros a
gram in large chunks, I saw pieces from 100 grams to 2
kilos."

I believe the operative phrase here is 'LARGE chunks',
not beautiful, 10-20g translucent part slices, but
LARGE chunks.

2000g x 10 Euro/gram = ~$24,000.00

That is pretty much the wholesale price for that
quantity of Esquel, isn't it? I'm betting that there
is currently more Esquel available for the market than
Fukang, and most collectors already have Esquel.
Almost no one has any Fukang and there are very few
places that one could purchase it if they wanted to.
We can each make up our own minds as for what that
means for the market, but if you think the market is
going to be "flooded" with Fukang, then by all means
wait.


Cheers


-John



--- Michael Farmer <meteoriteguy_at_yahoo.com> wrote:

> I thought I made it clear that it was being offered
> here at less than 10 euros per gram, if you have
> some
> esquel for that price, chunks, slices, or endcuts,
> you
> let me know, I will buy, but thus Fukang pallasite,
> while gorgeous, if fukang huge, and with 900 kilos,
> or
> 300 kilos, the market cant hold up a high fukang
> price.
> Bob Haag and I were discussing it over many beers at
> the Hofbrauhaus saturday night, and we both know
> what
> is going to happen. High price on market, low sales,
> then panic and offers very cheap.
> It has happened to many times before.
> Mike Farmer
>
>
>
> -- John Birdsell <johnbirdsell_at_yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi Rob...My personal opinion is that Fukang will
> not
> > be selling for any less that it has been selling
> > for,
> > and my bet is that, if anything it will be selling
> > for
> > more. When you say Mike saw a "whole bunch" in
> > Munich,
> > I'm assuming it was less than or equal to 7.7
> kilos
> > of
> > mostly end-pieces. In any case, it is pretty clear
> > to
> > me that the majority of the Fukang pallasite will
> > not
> > be hitting the market, and considering that it is
> > the
> > only best looking pallasite out there, I don't
> think
> > that any of the very few people that have any will
> > be
> > in any big hurry to sell it for less than
> > say...Esquel. If anything my prediction would be
> > that
> > it will be priced well above Esquel.
> >
> >
> > Cheers
> >
> >
> > -John
> >
> >
> >
> > --- Rob Wesel <nakhladog_at_comcast.net> wrote:
> >
> > > So, to sum up:
> > >
> > > There isn't a whole lot of fukang meteorite to
> go
> > > round so don't expect the
> > > fukang price to go down.
> > >
> > > If you're looking for a fukang deal you may not
> a
> > > get a fukang specimen.
> > >
> > > But then Mike saw a whole bunch of fukang
> > meteorites
> > > in Munich so the whole
> > > fukang market is in question.
> > >
> > > Rob Wesel
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