[meteorite-list] What are the latest Iron Falls?

[Martin Altmann]

Could someone give the stats? (This Catalogue-Database makes always so much
trouble on my computer, so that I have to boot it always several times, if I
use it and have other programs open).
This hypothesis I read several times, that in Africa f.i. are less irons
than in Australia, because the aborigines didn't smelt iron.
Australia it says has 75 irons.

Buckleboo!
Martin

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> I don't know... I don't think so because it would be something linked to
> differenciation, which occured at the very beggining of the Earth's life.
As
> Garren mentioned, I would rather go for the use of iron meteorites to
> manufacture tools at the beggining of the 'age of iron'.
> Anyway, I have no proof of that, and just mention suggestions.
> I have heard also about an huge iron meteorite somewhere near then
northern
> pole, that had been used by men to make tools in the past, and was
supposed
> to be a holy stone. I do not remember exactly where it was, but I think
> someone wrote something about it sometime ago on the list...
>
> Cheers
>
> Frederic
>
>
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