[meteorite-list] Arizona's Meteor Crater Is Now Money Pit

[MexicoDoug at aol.com]

Ron, List, The legend lives on!

For an  idea of what was also probably in Barringer's dreams, take a look at 
this  article from a British Newspaper, the Penny Illustrated (September 14, 
1912), in  the last year of its over 50 year run...for a succinct account of 
the "Monster  Diamond" suspected at the bottom of the "crater at the top of 
Meteor Mountain"  as it seems the high plains were mistakenly called (unless Walt 
Disney built a  prototype there too)...  Arizona had become a state exactly 7 
months before  this was written...when Barringer was still gearing up for his 
ultimate,  dramatically failed adventure.

page 20, "Penny Illustrated" (September  14, 1912)

"Search for a Monster Diamond"
There is now in active  operation what is probably the most wonderful mining 
venture ever  recorded.  The object of the quest is an enormous meteor which 
struck the  earth ages ago, and is believed to be practically a solid diamond 
worth untold  millions of pounds.  The scene of this amazing mining operation 
is Meteor  Mountain, in the heart of the Arizona desert, in the southern part 
of the United  States.  The top of the mountain is hollowed out into a huge 
bowl-shaped  depression about 600 ft. deep and perhaps a mile across, much like a 
volcanic  crater, and there is a belief that this crater marks the place 
where a giant  meteorite, as large as the circumference of the bowl would 
indicate, struck the  earth many thousands of years ago and buried itself deep in the 
bowels of the  earth.  The theory that the main body of the meteor may prove 
to be one  huge diamond is based on the finding of gems in scattered fragments 
and on the  opinion of Sir William Crookes that the bottomless bores, known as 
"diamond  pipes," in which these gems are usually found are the result of 
falling  meteors.

Saludos, Doug


En un mensaje con fecha 07/17/2005  11:24:48 PM Mexico Daylight Time, 
baalke at zagami.jpl.nasa.gov  escribe:


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Arizona's  Meteor Crater is now money pit
by Austin Richardson
The Durango Herald  (Colorado) 
July 17, 2005