[meteorite-list] cleaning Millbillillie ?

From: mckinney trammell <bigpineartifacts_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Sun, 2 Nov 2008 17:14:35 -0800 (PST)
Message-ID: <449162.9107.qm_at_web53201.mail.re2.yahoo.com>

would oxaclic acid work like is does when removing red clay stains form quartz crystals?


--- On Sun, 11/2/08, tett <tett at rogers.com> wrote:

> From: tett <tett at rogers.com>
> Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] cleaning Millbillillie ?
> To: "Alexander Seidel" <gsac at gmx.net>, meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com, bobl at peaktopeak.com
> Date: Sunday, November 2, 2008, 5:10 PM
> I now have a much deeper appreciation for Millbillillie.
>
> I will not attempt cleaning and will reflect on the
> "subtle" beauty these
> meteorites have.
>
> Many Thanks!
>
> Mike
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Alexander Seidel" <gsac at gmx.net>
> To: "tett" <tett at rogers.com>;
> <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>;
> <bobl at peaktopeak.com>
> Sent: Sunday, November 02, 2008 11:24 AM
> Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] cleaning Millbillillie ?
>
>
> >> I agree that there is a special characteristic
> that would be lost if the
> >> red staining were to be removed from a
> Millbillillie individual.
> >> However,
> >> it is also great to have meteorites pristine with
> no terrestrial
> >> alteration.
> >> The priciest Millbillillies are those that with
> dark black glassy crusts.
> >
> > No, a meteorite like Millbillillie should be looked at
> in a much more
> > subtle way!
> >
> > It fell in 1960, and was collected no earlier than 10
> years later! Talking
> > about
> > Millbillillie is exciting in many respects, as it e.
> g. displays different
> > textures on
> > cut slices, but talking about exterior surface, I
> would always prefer a
> > piece with
> > natural (laterite) patina over a piece which was
> somehow "cleaned" (..if
> > this were
> > possible..) or has only got some more or less glossy
> black crust alone
> > rather than
> > the brownish-reddish surface stains that are so very
> *typical* for this
> > meteorite,
> > and are part of its "character", so to
> say...!
> >
> > You are right insofar as, when we are talking about
> may be fresh Eucrites
> > or fresh
> > Howardites, we are looking and longing for fresh
> glossy black crust in the
> > first place,
> > as will be the case with e. g. the early collected
> pieces of a historical
> > fall like Stannern,
> > or some rare other finds and falls, but things are a
> quite a bit different
> > with a fall like
> > Millbillillie, even if it occured as late as 1960,
> considered a "fresh"
> > fall....
> >
> > Well, nothing but my two (Euro-)Cents,
> > Alex
> > Berlin/Germany
> >
> >
> >
>
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