[meteorite-list] Willamette shale or fake ?

[Darren Garrison]

On Mon, 28 Feb 2005 22:47:25 +0100, "Meteoryt.net" <marcin at meteoryt.net> wrote:

>> Hi Marcin and listees,
>>
>> I bought a smaller (9 gr.) piece of this shale from this seller and it
>sure
>> is iron shale. Very magnetic. If you read there feedback these folks are
>> honest enough to buy from i guess.
>>
>
>Thanks this explain everything. I not telling that he is a cheater, but from
>photo this looks to me as stone fragment, so thats why I asked.

I had thought about buying that 9 gram fragment while it was still available, but decided that it
was probably shale from the hole the meteorite was found in like these samples here
http://home.earthlink.net/~capricorn89/willamette.htm and not a piece from the slice that was cut
from Willamette a few years back, and decided against it.  I've bought from the seller once,
though-- a nice little disc of etched Gibeon suitable to fit in a gem jar for my micromount
collection.