[meteorite-list] Help with Kunya-Urgench

From: Michael Blood <mlblood_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Wed, 05 May 2010 18:14:54 -0700
Message-ID: <C807661E.E166%mlblood_at_cox.net>

Hi Henry,
        Once a label is separated from a specimen and identification is
No longer certain, a dealer should GIVE the specimen to a
Child or beginning collector. If he is no longer certain of the identity
Of a piece he sold, he should give you a full refund AND pay for shipping
To return it (or negotiate a partial refund and you keep it if and only if
you want it)
        Anything less would be unethical - I am not on the board of the
IMCA which I am sure has a committee to address such circumstances,
But I am confident that would be their response.
        Is the dealer a member of the IMCA? Do you want to keep the
Piece (but receive compensation for it no being an Unidentified NWA
Specimen?) Is the dealer open in his communication?
        All these are factors, but certainly you are due compensation.
        Best wishes, Michael
PS: I can't tell you how many times I dropped VERY valuable small
Frags on my caret and could not tell what piece I found and had to
Abandon specimens worth $100 or more. Very frustrating, but a dealer
Must be certain of identification.


On 5/5/10 5:37 PM, "hxmendoza" <hxmendoza at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Okay so here is my first help request.
> A couple of weeks ago at the spring Denver gem and mineral show, I
> bought a supposed NWA classified meteorite from a dealer (whom I will
> not name as yet). The weather was awful that entire weekend and he
> hadn't gotten everything out if his van because if it. So the label
> for that endpiece was misplaced. I went back all three days and he had
> not found it yet. So we swapped info and he said he would try to find
> the label for it well as of today no luck. So I'm starting to think
> that my classified NWA that I paid a little over $1.00 a gram for is
> inevitably just going to stat an UNWA that I therefore overpaid for.
> But I called him a little while ago and now he says he found one
> orphaned label that says Kunya-Urgench so he thinks it might be that
> but he's not sure.
> There are very few pics of Kunya slices on the internet. Of the
> polished faces I was able to find only one looked like mine, on the
> Met Bulletin. The rest seemed different. Those had alot of white or
> gray in the matrix, whereas mine has a predominantly orangish/ tan
> matrix with lots of dark brown flecks interspersed throughout. So I'm
> doubtful but can't quite rule it out because of the one little
> pictured slice that does look like mine.
>
> So, does anyone have any Kunya-Urgench, or have any experience with it
> that if I sent you pics of my endpiece you could help me rule out or
> in this murky ID? Oh and the outside crust looks like what you see on
> NWA's in color and texture.
>
> HELP!!
>
> On a good note. I did get a nice Crusted fragment of Trilby Wash from
> him. Larry Sloan was there and verified that one.
>
>
> Regards,
> Henry Mendoza
>
> Sent from my iPod
>
>
>
>
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