[meteorite-list] Carancas Availability

From: Michael Farmer <meteoriteguy_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2007 23:31:19 -0800 (PST)
Message-ID: <853370.86670.qm_at_web33104.mail.mud.yahoo.com>

Don, have you somehow missed the 1000 or so emails
abotu Carancas since the fall? I came home with 300
grams, of which 100 grams was dust. There is not much
to go around, we are now firming up the total material
collected to be in the 10 kilogram range, including
some kilos of dust! That does not leave much for
collectors. The majority of the material has been sold
privately to scientists, collectors and some museums.
I have pieces, I purchased with a partner most of the
material avaialable at the Munich show, brought by
some South Americans. I left them the dust, it is not
so interesting for me, especially since they wanted
the same price per gram, with or without, so I did not
buy it.
I will be home from Germany tonight, so contact me
tomorrow, and we can hook you up.
Michael Farmer

--- Don Merchant <dmerchan at rochester.rr.com> wrote:

> Can someone explain something here. How much of
> Carancas is available to
> collectors? I would assume that since it's fall in
> mid September (almost 2
> months now) that there would be more availability in
> acquiring this
> meteorite. I see several on EBay but I am leery when
> reading auctions that
> state no guarantee the material is guaranteed to be
> of meteorite material as
> they were collected by towns people and then sold to
> some EBay sellers. I
> have not seen any big name dealer/collectors with
> any of this material on
> their sites or on EBay for that matter and this
> after 2 months. I perceived
> there was plenty of this material to go around and
> yet see very little being
> offered. Any explanations to why this is.
> Thanks
> Don Merchant
> IMCA #0960
> P.S. If any (reputable dealers I know and know me)
> one has a 1 to 2 gm with
> crust for offer please email me off list to
> negotiate
>
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