[meteorite-list] The Trials and Tribulations in Dealing with Landowners

From: Count Deiro <countdeiro_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2011 20:30:20 -0800 (GMT-08:00)
Message-ID: <4590586.1298262620296.JavaMail.root_at_mswamui-thinleaf.atl.sa.earthlink.net>

Hello All,

When you start pulling a ton of Brenham out of the ground don't expect to find, or quickly make, a market for it. Once the relatively small group of meteorite collectors (I'll bet there isn't five hundred that would but a pallasite in the world) get their specimens you will still have a massive amount left.

Might sound like a good idea to destroy the meteorite to smelt out the peridot, but most of it, although rare, is badly shocked, irregularly shaped and included. Cosmic peridot will never touch the appeal of the terrestial big four...diamond, ruby, emerald and sapphire. A high end market for gem quality peridot doesn't exist and it would take years to move what was cut and polished. And at a loss. Per esempio...It's my wife's birthstone (August) and I was able to purcase a near flawless, brilliant cut, Mexican example of nearly 20 carats for less than a thousand dollars mounted in 18kt gold.

Steve has a tough row to hoe....

Regards to all,

Count Deiro
IMCA 3536 MetSoc


-----Original Message-----
>From: Darren Garrison <cynapse at charter.net>
>Sent: Feb 20, 2011 7:23 PM
>To: meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com
>Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] The Trials and Tribulations in Dealing with Landowners
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>On Sun, 20 Feb 2011 22:00:28 -0500, you wrote:
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>>It is my understanding that they are considerably more rare than diamonds yet are priced well below the cost of an equivalent flawless diamond.
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>http://www.arizona-peridot.com/Peridot_Prices.html
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