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

From: Michael Gilmer <meteoritemike_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2011 11:15:26 -0500
Message-ID: <AANLkTi=norydB+xNujxtvcWHp+01sG5sCpR54MW-7i2j_at_mail.gmail.com>

Are these meteorites actually being "melted down" for their peridot?
What happens to the rest of the meteorite? I was under the assumption
that the peridots in question were salvaged from badly-oxidized
specimens or were culled from peridots that fell out of the matrix. I
didn't realize whole pallasites were being rendered down to extract
the peridots.

Best regards,

MikeG


On 2/21/11, Mike Miller <meteoritefinder at gmail.com> wrote:
> Just so we keep things straight the Admire meteorites are the ones
> being melted down for their peridot and also the strewn field where
> the landowner lives that was given big expectations about the returns
> of the meteorites found on his land.
>
> On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 8:30 AM, <cdtucson at cox.net> wrote:
>> Adam,
>> "One of the main problems is with trust."
>> Speaking of trust. Is there a way to certify this material from Earth
>> peridot?
>> Wait until the eBay *posers* get word of this new Space Gem.
>> Kaching, (sp)?
>> Carl
>> --
>> Carl or Debbie Esparza
>> Meteoritemax
>>
>>
>> ---- Adam Hupe <raremeteorites at yahoo.com> wrote:
>>> One of the main problems is with trust. This strewn field has been
>>> available for
>>> over 100 years and for all practical purposes now may be closed. It only
>>> takes
>>> one or two angry landowners to shut down the entire area to meteorite
>>> hunters.
>>> News of fraud, lawsuits and unpaid promised large sums of money, real or
>>> imagined spread like wildfire through these rural communities.
>>>
>>> The quicker this is resolved, the better. The hunting tradition in this
>>> area
>>> dates back to the Kimberly's, Nininger and Haag. It would be a shame to
>>> see it
>>> permanently off-limits now.
>>>
>>>
>>> Unfortunately, I witnessed the same thing with with the avocation of
>>> treasure
>>> hunting which still has not recovered after 25 years. Property owners
>>> used to
>>> grant permission freely to search but this is a rarity these days.
>>>
>>> Happy Hunting,
>>>
>>> Adam
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