[meteorite-list] NEWS RELEASE

From: FRANK B CRESSY <fcressy_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 09:55:50 2004
Message-ID: <001601c1a4fc$ce1bb240$c931ff3f_at_g10fb>

Hello Rick,

Am I correct that you're looking for a 300 lb. piece of the Springwater
pallasite? Recovering it out of the lost well might be the easy part. How do
you get it out of Canada?
Just curious,
Frank

----- Original Message -----
From: Rick Nowak <internationalmeteoritesociety_at_yahoo.com>
To: <meteorite-list_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2002 10:53 PM
Subject: [meteorite-list] NEWS RELEASE


NEWS RELEASE SENT OUT TO MAJOR CANADIAN NEWSPAPERS
UNKNOWN TO GENERAL PUBLIC

IMS International Meteorite Society Chippewa Lake
Ohio-

Famous meteorite hunter Harvey Nininger during the
summer of 1931 wrote a meteorite news story for the
Canadian Saskatoon Star. He stated farmers could have
easily hauled meteorites to their rock piles. He
explained how to recognize meteorites, stressed the
importance of recovery, and how he was offering a cash
reward. Later a farmer by the name of Ward contacted
Mr. Nininger and sent him about 200 pounds of
meteorites in return receiving a check. In the 1931
correspondence with Mr. Ward he told Mr. Nininger of
"the big one that got away." Before he learned the
true value of the dark rocks he had thrown away the
largest one he ever found. "We were filling up a well
about seventy or eighty feet deep" he related. "I was
hauling rocks to fill it up. And this particular rock
was so heavy we used a team to pull it up onto the
stone-boat, and then when I got to the well it was all
I could do to dump it. I tore my hands rolling it into
the well." Later Nininger used a magnetometer in 1950
to find the old well and recover the meteorite. He was
meant by failure due to the technology at the time and
granite with magnetite. I was alerted to this
meteorite after reading Find A falling Star by Harvey
Nininger. Later IMS contacted the village of
Springwater and had them do a tax search for a Mr.
Ward. The current property owners where located and
the amount of $100,000 was offered upon recovery which
is pending further cash offers are in the works. IMS
contacted Martin Beech at Campion College University
of Regina (306) 359-1216. To be a part of the recovery
of this Springwater Meteorite. One dealer sells
Springwater at $50.00 dollars a gram

http://fernlea.tripod.com/sale4.html

Listed under Springwater

 IMS has access to a Ground Penetration Rader which
cost $50,000.00 IMS will be able to locate the well
rather easily in a plowed over field then proceed with
recovery. IMS suspects meteorite at 300 lb.



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