[meteorite-list] Strange Rock Reportshvvhox lbvcffi
From: Eddie Garza <eddiegarza17_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Sat, 03 Oct 2009 16:10:03 -0500 Message-ID: <8B15378A-CFF4-4BA2-ADE6-40ACAF648A04_at_mac.com> On Oct 2, 2009, at 7:43 PM, MEM <mstreman53 at yahoo.com> wrote: > Hello Mike, List, Meteorwrong Collectors, > > How many kilos do you want? This is a great meteorwrong specific to > Pennsylvania highways and railroads. It makes great target material > for testing your meteorite hunting skills with a metal detector. It > is not technically a "slag" as it is an intended bulk ore additive > made in that form for ease of shipping and charging blast furnaces. > > I believe it is what is known as "Giest Eisen" or "Eisen Giest"-- > Spirit iron*-- a cobalt/molybdenum -enriched, iron-ore stock made in > the 80 or 90s for the German steel industry by The New Jersey Zinc > Company(?) in Palmerton, PA( EPA Super Fund Top 10 and one of my > favorite collecting places for radioactive morsels). The process > didn't have as much cobalt as specified(?) or other defect and whist > waiting for resolution, NJZC went out of the smelting business in > Palmerton. > > Bethlehem Steel may also have experimented with the mountains of > these which were left in limbo. A lot of it found its way into road > bed filler. It is magnetic, makes a metal detector sing soprano, > and as I said is a realistic acting meteorwrong. > > Palmerton's "claim" to fame was a perpetual toxic-fog inversion > overlying the town sited between two high ridges in a narrow > valley. This killed the vegetation and left Palmertion looking like > a transplanted town from somewhere in Colorado or Utah. It also > killed the local residents in particularly persistent fogs. > > Elton > > * The origin of the name cobalt was attributed to its mysterious > nature which made smelting iron difficult or so I thought, but the > Wikipedia article gives a different slant. >> From the Wikipedia article on cobalt's name origin: > "The word cobalt is derived from the German "kobalt", from "kobold" > meaning "goblin", a term used for the ore of cobalt by miners. The > first attempts at smelting the cobalt ores to produce cobalt metal > failed, yielding cobalt(II) oxide instead. Also, because the primary > ores of cobalt always contain arsenic, smelting the ore oxidized > into the highly toxic and volatile oxide As4O6, which was inhaled by > workers". > ______________________________________________ > http://www.meteoritecentral.com > Meteorite-list mailing list > Meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com > http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list Received on Sat 03 Oct 2009 05:10:03 PM PDT |
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