[meteorite-list] Help with Kunya-Urgench

From: Greg Catterton <star_wars_collector_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Wed, 5 May 2010 18:25:31 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID: <557725.42705.qm_at_web46410.mail.sp1.yahoo.com>

I have to agree with Michael 110% on this.

Greg Catterton
www.wanderingstarmeteorites.com
IMCA member 4682
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--- On Wed, 5/5/10, Michael Blood <mlblood at cox.net> wrote:

> From: Michael Blood <mlblood at cox.net>
> Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Help with Kunya-Urgench
> To: "hxmendoza" <hxmendoza at yahoo.com>, "Meteorite List" <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
> Date: Wednesday, May 5, 2010, 9:14 PM
> 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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