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From: ROCKS ON FIRE <meteorites_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 10:00:08 2004
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Hi, Rob,
congratulations to that beautiful Dalgaranga specimen, I envy you. It is
for sure very rare, and we do not get an export permit for that stuff
here Down-Under.
I myself have got a fair bit of highly weathered Dalgaranga
mesosiderite, nothing as beautiful as yours.
If you are interested to have a look, here you find them:
http://www.rocksonfire.com/met-ex-da05.htm and
http://www.rocksonfire.com/met-ex-da04.htm
To all of you, best regards from Down-Under,
Norbert F. Kammel
IMCA #3420
www.rocksonfire.com

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Subject: [meteorite-list] Dalgaranga Mesosiderite
Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2002 12:43:53 EDT
From: FERNLEA4_at_aol.com
To: Meteorite-List_at_meteoritecentral.com

Hi folks,

during my meteorite travels in Chicago last week, I picked up a great
looking Australian mesosiderite individual named Dalgaranga, and was
reliably informed by the curator that "this is the only metallic
specimen of Dalgaranga in existence", with all the remaining 10kg being
shale and completely oxidised mesosiderite. If that's the case, I'm well
pleased to be the present owner, but does anyone know if that's so, or
of any other metallic Dalgaranga specimens out there?
I've linked through to some pictures below that I thought you might like
to see. It's an oriented specimen with fine flow lines over the
"dome"...the rollover lip is just about there, but has suffered from
weathering somewhat. The backside obviously once contained silicate
inclusions, but these have either weathered out to leave pockets, or
simply didn't survive being torn off the larger mass in flight. David
Weir suggested to me that this mostly iron individual was once a
metallic nodule, ripped away from it's surrounding stony matrix in
flight, and it's certainly looking that way.
I ground a small corner this afternoon and etched the polished face to
reveal a very fine Widmanstatten pattern, similar to the figures which
appear on the metal blebs in my Estherville slice, plus a couple of tiny
silicate inclusions.
Here's the pictures.....enjoy! :-)

http://fernlea.tripod.com/dalgaranga1.jpg

http://fernlea.tripod.com/dalgaranga2.jpg

http://fernlea.tripod.com/dalgaranga3.jpg

http://fernlea.tripod.com/dalgaranga4.jpg

By the way, I loved Chicago and even managed to catch a Cubs game at
Wrigley Field....I made it as far as the 7th Innings Stretch, but didn't
know the lyrics to "take me out to the ball game", much to everyone's
relief!

Cheers,
Rob Elliott.
www.meteorites.uk.com
Fernlea Meteorites,
The Wynd,
Off Dickson Lane,
Milton of Balgonie,
Fife. KY7 6PY
United Kingdom
Tel: +44-(0)1592-751563
Fax: +44-(0)1592-751991
Email: fernlea4_at_aol.com

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Hi, Rob, 
congratulations to that beautiful Dalgaranga specimen, I envy you. It is
for sure very rare, and we do not get an export permit for that stuff here
Down-Under. 
I myself have got a fair bit of  highly weathered Dalgaranga mesosiderite,
nothing as beautiful as yours. 
If you are interested to have a look, here you find them:  <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.rocksonfire.com/met-ex-da05.htm">http://www.rocksonfire.com/met-ex-da05.htm</a>
 and <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.rocksonfire.com/met-ex-da04.htm">http://www.rocksonfire.com/met-ex-da04.htm</a> 
To all of you, best regards from Down-Under, 
Norbert F. Kammel 
IMCA #3420 
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.rocksonfire.com">www.rocksonfire.com</a> 
 
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Hi folks, 
 
during my meteorite travels in Chicago last week, I picked up a great looking
Australian mesosiderite individual named Dalgaranga, and was reliably informed
by the curator that "this is the only metallic specimen of Dalgaranga in
existence", with all the remaining 10kg being shale and completely oxidised
mesosiderite. If that's the case, I'm well pleased to be the present owner,
but does anyone know if that's so, or of any other metallic Dalgaranga specimens
out there? 
I've linked through to some pictures below that I thought you might like
to see. It's an oriented specimen with fine flow lines over the "dome"...the
rollover lip is just about there, but has suffered from weathering somewhat.
The backside obviously once contained silicate inclusions, but these have
either weathered out to leave pockets, or simply didn't survive being torn
off the larger mass in flight. David Weir suggested to me that this mostly
iron individual was once a metallic nodule, ripped away from it's surrounding
stony matrix in flight, and it's certainly looking that way. 
I ground a small corner this afternoon and etched the polished face to reveal
a very fine Widmanstatten pattern, similar to the figures which appear on
the metal blebs in my Estherville slice, plus a couple of tiny silicate inclusions. 
Here's the pictures.....enjoy! :-) 
 
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://fernlea.tripod.com/dalgaranga1.jpg">http://fernlea.tripod.com/dalgaranga1.jpg</a> 
 
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://fernlea.tripod.com/dalgaranga2.jpg">http://fernlea.tripod.com/dalgaranga2.jpg</a> 
 
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://fernlea.tripod.com/dalgaranga3.jpg">http://fernlea.tripod.com/dalgaranga3.jpg</a> 
 
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://fernlea.tripod.com/dalgaranga4.jpg">http://fernlea.tripod.com/dalgaranga4.jpg</a> 
 
By the way, I loved Chicago and even managed to catch a Cubs game at Wrigley
Field....I made it as far as the 7th Innings Stretch, but didn't know the
lyrics to "take me out to the ball game", much to everyone's relief! 
 
Cheers, 
Rob Elliott. 
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.meteorites.uk.com">www.meteorites.uk.com</a> 
Fernlea Meteorites, 
The Wynd, 
Off Dickson Lane, 
Milton of Balgonie, 
Fife. KY7 6PY 
United Kingdom 
Tel: +44-(0)1592-751563 
Fax: +44-(0)1592-751991 
Email: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:fernlea4_at_aol.com">fernlea4@aol.com</a>
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