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

From: Göran Axelsson <axelsson_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2011 17:26:38 +0100
Message-ID: <4D62923E.6020605_at_acc.umu.se>

If it's done chemically then it is called dissolving, not melting.
Melting is done with heat and it would destroy the olivines. Olivine is
used to create a slag when melting iron ore and forms a liquid layer on
top of the melted iron.

/G?ran


Mike Miller wrote:
> Yes the entire meteorites are "melted" (chemically) and all is lost
> except for the olivine.
>
> On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 9:15 AM, Michael Gilmer <meteoritemike at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> 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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