[meteorite-list] Ash Creek vs. Buzzard Coulee

[Brian Cox]

I feel that Greg S. and everyone answered the specifics of why Ash Creek is 
more expensive than Buzzard Coulee very well. We got several reports each 
day from the field on the search for Ash Creek-West, many more reports than 
on Buzzard Coulee. Also, Ash Creek was more accessible than Buzzard and also 
you have to throw into the mix the fact that Canadian laws made it 
impossible for any Buzzard Coulee to be exported, so none were allowed out 
by law except in some very, very rare instances of where we know a specimen 
or two got out of Canada. Those Canadian laws made it less desirable for 
anyone to bother searching for it as aggressively as Ash Creek.

Also, the fact that no one knew for sure when Canada was going to allow 
export permits, it just made sense that it was not worth the wait, time, 
money and effort to search for Buzzard since there are so many more 
collectors/dealers in the lower 48 states and so many collectors in the 
Southwest areas of Texas, New Mexico, Colorado, Arizona , Nevada and 
California that could easily drive to Texas. Honestly, think about the fact 
that if you put a dot on a map of the "World" for every collector/dealer, 
there would be the greatest concentration in the Western U.S.