[meteorite-list] Fusion Crust on Irons

From: Martin Altmann <altmann_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2006 08:56:19 +0100
Message-ID: <03d501c7190c$0472c1c0$4f41fea9_at_name86d88d87e2>

Only one of them,
they aren't relatives.

And honestly - if you bother, when you get a pallasite, which costed before
10-15$/g at 300$/kg; a CO3 fall, which costed before 50-150$/g at 2.5$/g; a
MES; which was unavailable before at 5$/g; a cumulate Euc, where you paid
25$/g at 1.5$/g; irons, which costed 2-5$/g at 250$/kg, another PAL, which
was available only every 10 years in minute amounts, at 300$/kg; a low
tkw-fall, good for 25$/g at 1.5$/g; the most beautiful iron, which was
priced at 5-9$/g at 300$/kg; good ol classic stones with names, all good for
2-4$/g at 0.4-0.6$/g; lunaites, where people paid 3500-5500/g before at
200-700$/g; a Mars, which is paid today with 500$/g at 100-150$/g; OCs with
all find data cheaper than unclassified NWAs...
...stones and irons, where you earned good money in reselling them,

if you bother there, whether you paid 10 bucks to much for shipment,
then I guess, you missed the right field of collecting and you'd rather
should collect beer bottle labels, but not meteorites.
Or you'd rather should not buy meteorites, but to try to hunt them.
You'll be astonished, how extreme expensive it will be, to find such
amounts, like the Russians did, call us, when you've found your first 10
lunaites :-), I'll pay you 10$ excess for shipping them in small polished
slices at 200$/g to me.

Chirp,
Martin

Now at the Hamburg show.





-----Urspr?ngliche Nachricht-----
Von: meteorite-list-bounces at meteoritecentral.com
[mailto:meteorite-list-bounces at meteoritecentral.com] Im Auftrag von Bill
Gesendet: Mittwoch, 6. Dezember 2006 08:19
An: meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com
Betreff: Re: [meteorite-list] Fusion Crust on Irons

Didn't those heroes charge a pretty steep shipping charge for even the
smallest particle? I suppose the "smart" buyer bought according to the
combined offer but what about the hundreds maybe thousands of uninitiated
buyers that paid the charge for a few grams. I'll pass on the medal
ceremony.

Bill



> -----Original Message-----
> From: altmann at meteorite-martin.de
> Sent: Tue, 5 Dec 2006 11:01:24 +0100
> To: h3chondrite at cox.net, meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com
> Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Fusion Crust on Irons
>
> Hi John,
>
> no, I'd doubt that. At those prices having paid during the last 5 years,
> any
> additional work on the smaller Sikhote-Alins had to be avoided, else it
> would be economically nonsensical.
> I think to hunt them, to carry them down from the mountains, to derust
> them,
> to transport them to Western-Europe and USA, but then getting out not
> more
> than 150$/kg even for the nicest individuals on ebay, (additional
> paypal-fees, ebay provision, currency exchange losses) as it was the case
> until 1 year ago, simply wouldn't justfy to burn each piece blue or to
> use
> expensive gun oils.
> And if I look back - most Russian suppliers always sold extremely cleaned
> Sikhotes, brushed, tmbled, etched and grinded down until the iron was a
> shiny silver. I never liked that style, but I observed, as Sikhote-Alin
> was
> always the first choice of non-meteoriticistical buyers, that they got
> higher prices than nicer, not so radically cleaned Sikhotes, because the
> laymen thought, that it would be a spot of bother, if there would be dark
> spots or even spots of rust left.
> I remember, that I had always to place an extra order, to get some not so
> down-cleaned, where beside some rust, here and there some blue, or some
> remainders of crust could be found, simply because most suppliers had
> only
> silverware.
>
> Now, where Sikhote stongly is raising again in price, it might be a
> temptation to refurbish some of them, but unfortunately the strewnfield
> is
> exhausted and almost only shrapnels are still found.
>
> Thus a toast from the collectors for our Russian heroes,
> who supplied and are supplying the market with the nicest and most
> interesting meteorites, always bringing the price down to a small
> fraction
> of that, what it cost before - which never should be a cause for a
> collector, to disesteem those locales!
> The older will remember, when Sikhote cost 5$-9$/g, a Kainsaz 50$ and how
> many of us would be horny for Brahin, never complaining about its
> stability,
> if it would be so difficult available as 10, 15 years ago, when it cost
> as
> much as an Imilac, a Fukang, and sometimes even as Finmarken.
>
> Buckleboo!
> Martin
>
> -----Urspr?ngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: meteorite-list-bounces at meteoritecentral.com
> [mailto:meteorite-list-bounces at meteoritecentral.com] Im Auftrag von
> JKGwilliam
> Gesendet: Dienstag, 5. Dezember 2006 05:19
> An: Mike Bandli; gary at webbers.com; meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com
> Betreff: Re: [meteorite-list] Fusion Crust on Irons
>
> Does anyone besides me believe that many of the Sikhote-Alin irons have
> been "doctored" to look better than they really are? Over the past
> several
> years I've heard several stories (rumors) that a lot of creative work has
> been used to make some of the SAs look as good as they do. One of the
> stories actually involved the application of liquid gun blueing. I've
> seen
> pictures of some of these beautiful specimens right out of the ground and
> they are pretty rusty.
>
> Best,
> John
>
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