[meteorite-list] Happy 10th Birthday Portales Valley

[mckinney trammell]

me & dave etched a totally bitchin', 70% metal,  pv completeslice , fusion-crusted yesterday- turned out beautiful!


--- On Sat, 6/14/08, Dark Matter <freequarks at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Dark Matter <freequarks at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Happy 10th Birthday Portales Valley
> To: bernd.pauli at paulinet.de
> Cc: Meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com
> Date: Saturday, June 14, 2008, 9:13 PM
> Sorry, forgot the link:
> 
> http://www.meteorite-times.com/Back_Links/2006/September/Micro_Visions.htm
> 
> happy viewing.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Sat, Jun 14, 2008 at 7:12 PM, Dark Matter
> <freequarks at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi Bernd and All,
> >
> > For a close up view of PV, check out Tom's Micro
> Visions article on
> > it. I suspect that piece might be the PV with the
> finest polish in the
> > world.
> >
> > Thanks Tom!
> >
> > -Martin
> >
> >
> >
> > On Sat, Jun 14, 2008 at 9:55 PM, 
> <bernd.pauli at paulinet.de> wrote:
> >> Mike Farmer writes:
> >>
> >> "I found one stone, and bought many more for
> a total of more than 15 kilos."
> >>
> >> and: "Happy Birthday to one of my favorite
> meteorites"
> >>
> >>
> >> A very enthusiastic Mike Farmer sent me this mail
> on Wed, 22 Jul 1998:
> >>
> >> "Bernd, I just returned from the UofA where
> most of the analysis is being done.
> >>  They loved this piece. It is quite obvious that
> this chondrite was smashed in
> >>  a huge shock event and metal flowed into the
> stone crushed pieces. I wish they
> >>  were all this nice! I had to pay over $...*/ gram
> for this slice and I will try
> >>  to get another since it is so incredible."
> >>
> >> * amount canceled by me because I don't know
> if Mike wants to keep this private
> >>
> >> Best wishes from the happy owner of  an 11.5-gram
> metal-poor slice (M. Farmer),
> >> a 3.9-gram metal-rich slice (M. Blood) and a PV
> thin section (M. Farmer),
> >>
> >> Bernd
> >>
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