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Hamada crustal ridge, et al

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Subject: Hamada crustal ridge, et al
From: walt radomski <meteorite@compuserve.com>
Date: Thu, 9 Oct 1997 15:30:12 -0400
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For those of you that received Doug Hollis' jpeg with the vein highlighted
in RED -
BINGO- right on the money! The vein is faintly visible on the broken
surface in the second photo, but don't strain your eyes. Even with the
specimen in front of me, it is difficult to correlate the structure in the
photo.

He's either got keen perception, or my description of it's location was
perfect ;-)
Either way, Hollis gets an "A". So does the digital camera.

The way the vein is situated in this specimen, it is quite conceivable to
get a specimen without any veins. However, the meteorite is strongly
magnetic, telling me there is much more metal than what is just segregated
in the vein. That is just to say this ain't no L chondrite. 

As for Mike's comments - there is no conflicting info. It is only
incomplete at the moment. Who knows - the name may change again, but the
specimen remains the same!

Right now this stone is selling for under 2.00 a gram. How could you go
wrong?

If you wait, you lose.  You will learn this sooner or later. Get it now,
why worry later. Better than saying ' Wish I," or "I should of". (The only
recent event that I can remember when this axiom was not true, was the
entry prices of Ibitira to the marketplace) I see a lot of material before
it gets written up in the MS Bulletins. In fact, lots of new material gets
distributed between dealers well before it makes it to the MSB (recently,
eg, Wells). As facts become available, they get passed on. That is what is
going on here, in a public forum. The information distribution system has
been sped up, but the processing time - to get the results penned in the
proper forum (MSB), remains the same.

Previously, eg, if Reed came up with something new, he makes a call, and we
buy. When he gets results back on type, etc, the grapevine gets called, and
info updated, and passed along to collectors. We are such a small group,
that this is never a problem. What's the hurry? 

But, patience is a virtue. 

Regards,
Walt