[meteorite-list] Zagami

[Michael L Blood]

Hi Stan, Afonso & list members,
        My Meteorite Market Trends column in the June
(current) issue of METEORITE TIMES addresses this
exchange - quite adequately, I think - but that's just
my opinion.  See here:

http://www.michaelbloodmeteorites.com/MMT.html

        Best wishes, Michael



on 6/4/06 11:55 PM, stan . at laser_maniac at hotmail.com wrote:

> FWIW when Bob Haag first sold zagami you could buy small quantities of it
> for 50$/g since the price of nearly all meteorites is volume dependant with
> larger quantiies selling for lower prices that means the value of 9kgs - AT
> THAT TIME - would ahve been no more than a few hundred thousand dollars.
> 
> 
>> About the Zagami stone:
>> In the Mars meteorite compendium of 2003, it seams that Bob Haag toke 9Kg
>> of
>> the meteorite, about 50 % of the total mass.
>> At the actual prices are  between 500 - 1000 USD/g. it means 4.5 to 9
>> Million USD, if I am not totally wrong.
>> What was traded for the meteorite? 100.000 USD of what? A reference
>> collection? I am very curious. Can someone provide a list of the meteorites
>> given in return for it? Or photos?
>> Even if the value of 100 000 USD is the real, I simply say:
>> You call business to anything!
>> 
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