[meteorite-list] Neither Carbonado Nor Meteorite

From: Steve Schoner <schoner_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 2009 15:32:07 GMT
Message-ID: <20090409.093207.22003.0_at_webmail17.dca.untd.com>

I can assure you and everyone that this is a real carbonado diamond. I have dealt this this ebay diamond distributor before and his items are exactly what he claims them to be.

They are diamonds.

I bought a nice one from this dealer some time ago. It is a specimen at 21 carets and he had another which I pulled the bit at which was an extremely rare round one with fusion crust on the exterior.

Yes, what looked like fusion crust ! With flow lines !

I wish I had the $1,250 that he asked. He held it for a month or so for me, but I could not come up with the money due to medical bills. He re-listed it at $3,500. It sold. :-( to my loss, and his gain :-) And to the person that bought it ;->

There are articles out now that deal with the possibility that these unique diamonds are the products of an asteroid impact 2.9 billion years ago right at the points in Africa and South America where the two land masses were joined 2.9 billion years ago. These black diamonds are found no where else.

Dr. Haggarty has some articles on this:

http://www.bnl.gov/bnlweb/pubaf/pr/PR_display.asp?prID=07-X2

Research is continuing. But the story Dr. Haggarty has revealed is a very interesting one.

So the possibility of this being meteoric is up in the air, and the certainty that this is in fact a diamond is real.

A carbonado of this size is extremely rare. I think the largest ever found is over 1 kg.

This carbonado must be the second largest, and if so the price asked is in the right ball park.

Steve Schoner
IMCA #4470



Date: Wed, 8 Apr 2009 12:59:57 -0400
From: "JoshuaTreeMuseum" <joshuatreemuseum at embarqmail.com>
Subject: [meteorite-list] Neither Carbonado Nor Meteorite
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Yet another meteorwrong on eBay. I'm pretty sure it's not a diamond either.
Carbonados are black for one thing.....A raw meteorite as opposed to a
cooked one?

http://cgi.ebay.com/731CT-1-RAW-METEORITE-NATURAL-UNCUT-ROUGH-DIAMONDS_W0QQitemZ3003056869
88QQcmdZViewItemQQptZLH_DefaultDomain_0?hash=item300305686988&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14&_trkpar
ms=72%3A1205%7C66%3A2%7C65%3A12%7C39%3A1%7C240%3A1309%7C301%3A1%7C293%3A1%7C294%3A50

Phil Whitmer



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