[meteorite-list] Help with Kunya-Urgench

[hxmendoza]

Okay so here is my first help request.
A couple of weeks ago at the spring Denver gem and mineral show, I  
bought a supposed NWA classified meteorite from a dealer (whom I will  
not name as yet). The weather was awful that entire weekend and he  
hadn't gotten everything out if his van because if it. So the label  
for that endpiece was misplaced. I went back all three days and he had  
not found it yet. So we swapped info and he said he would try to find  
the label for it well as of today no luck. So I'm starting to think  
that my classified NWA that I paid a little over $1.00 a gram for is  
inevitably just going to stat an UNWA that I therefore overpaid for.  
But I called him a little while ago and now he says he found one  
orphaned label that says Kunya-Urgench so he thinks it might be that  
but he's not sure.
There are very few pics of Kunya slices on the internet. Of the  
polished faces I was able to find only one looked like mine, on the  
Met Bulletin. The rest seemed different. Those had alot of white or  
gray in the matrix, whereas mine has a predominantly orangish/ tan  
matrix with lots of dark brown flecks interspersed throughout. So I'm  
doubtful but can't quite rule it out because of the one little  
pictured slice that does look like mine.

So, does anyone have any Kunya-Urgench, or have any experience with it  
that if I sent you pics of my endpiece you could help me rule out or  
in this murky ID? Oh and the outside crust looks like what you see on  
NWA's in color and texture.

HELP!!

On a good note. I did get a nice Crusted fragment of Trilby Wash from  
him. Larry Sloan was there and verified that one.


Regards,
Henry Mendoza

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