[meteorite-list] Mutha Stone

From: Arizona Skies Meteorites <johnbirdsell_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Fri Dec 30 23:35:58 2005
Message-ID: <20051231043556.18541.qmail_at_web51513.mail.yahoo.com>

Hi Adam, that is an interesting question. It is
interesting because Chinese meteorites have been
exported from China for decades if not hundreds of
years. Chinese meteorites have been at all of the gem
and mineral shows across this country for decades. In
fact, I would go as far as to bet that every list
member has a Chinese meteorite or two in their
collection. How many do you have in your collection
Adam? I'm curious as to the motive for your sudden
"interest" in Chinese meteorites. The information that
we have received from reliable sources in China that
there aren't any regulations governing the export of
meteorites from China period. Fossils yes, meteorites
no. Of course this may change in the future, and we
have heard from a source in China that some efforts
are being made by a few to try to start regulating
meteorites as well. I suspect that your "information"
is incorrect. Of course, if you could provide the list
with a written copy of this "specific" legislation
that you are referring to, I'm sure that we could get
it translated into english within a day or two, and we
could all see for ourselves. We would all learn
something if you would do that for us. In the absence
of that though, it is difficult to envision why China
would have a specific "law" to regulate the export of
Rusty Nantans, which are basically the only meteorite
that would be exported from China. The fact that all
of the gem and mineral shows are full of Chinese
meteorites tends to suggest that there is no such law.
I find it a bit odd that you'd claim to be interested
in exporting meteorites from China as there really
hasn't been much to export from China with the
exception of rusty old Nantans. Is that what you were
going to export? Of course there were the five or six
rare Chinese meteorites such as those on Mike Farmer's
website, but these are rare, and would be unavialable
to you. Which Chinese meteorites were you planning on
exporting Adam?
     We find the amount of b.s. being posted about
fukang is quite interesting. I guess it must be just
be jealousy on the part of the dealers that tried
unsucessfully to purchase it from the finder. I guess
they figure if they couldn't get it then they would
try to malign it in an attempt to devalue it. We of
course lost out too, but we can't fathom the extreme
enmity that has been directed towards the people that
ended up puchasing that meteorite-it is really quite
sad. Adam, you seem to have an inordinate amount of
interest in fukang. Just out of curiosity, were you
one of those individuals that tried unsucessfully to
purchase it? We know of several other list members
that tried unsucessfully, and now seem to be suffering
from the sour grape syndrome. Are you also interested
in Sikhote? I notice that you are selling quite a few
Sikhotes. Are you also curious about export
regulations for them too?


Cheers



-John



--- Adam Hupe <raremeteorites_at_comcast.net> wrote:

I only asked because China has specific laws
prohibiting the export of
meteorites and fossils. A company I work for was
interested in bringing
them
out legally but China has a no-deal policy, even if
you represent a
museum.

No paperwork other than an invoice, a declaration and
a waybill is
required
from Morocco although a well know dealer from Europe
tried to change
all of
this a few years back. He only ended up screwing
himself in the long
run.

I ask again, how was a meteorite legally exported from
China who has
specific laws against such actions?

Adam





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