[meteorite-list] BLACK FRIDAY POP QUIZ Answer

[LITIG8NSHARK at aol.com]

Good afternoon Folks,

About 10 years ago  I bought a small specimen of Calcalong Creek from Rob 
Eliot.  I sold about  a dozen .0005 to .002 gram specimens of this meteorite 
on eBay for $400.00  each.  As available lunar material was tougher to come  
by back then, and given the rarity of Calcalong Creek, none of my  
Buy-It-Now listings on eBay lasted any more than a few hours.   Conservatively, the 
sales price of those specimens ranged from $200,000/g to  about $800,000/g.  

I decided to add a new, small specimen of  Calcalong Creek to my collection 
just a couple of months ago and I paid  approximately $250,000/g for that 
specimen---and felt darned lucky to get it at  all.  

Best regards,

Paul Martyn
Savannah, GA

In a  message dated 11/28/2010 2:43:51 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,  
meteoritemike at gmail.com writes:
Hi Stuart and List,

Questions like  this can be tricky, depending on the information
sources  available.

For example...

I once paid $100 for a 1mg speck of  Sylacauga.  That amounts to a
staggering $100,000/gram.

Even  further....

I once traded for a 1mg speck of Lafayette.  In the  process of moving
the speck to another gemjar, the speck fractured into two  pieces - one
larger, one smaller.  I sold the smaller sub-speck for  $100.  I would
wager that the speck weighed less than 1/2  milligram.  So the selling
price on that was about $200,000 per gram or  more.

>From everything I have read or seen, $200K per gram exceeds any  known
auction price or selling price for a meteorite (per gram).

Of  course, I wasn't around back before the internet and during the
opening days  of the Saharan gold rush when lunars and martians were
selling for  astronomical prices.  During those days, Calcalong Creek
was  exceedingly-expensive.  It is indeed possible that some intrepid
soul  paid more than $200K/gram for a speck of it.

Best  regards,

MikeG

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On  11/28/10, Stuart McDaniel <actionshooting at carolina.rr.com> wrote:
>  Is it written somewhere that this IS the most expensive per gram??  
Because
> internet searches turns up all different ones as "the most  expensive 
ever".
>
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> -----Original Message-----
>  From: Shawn Alan
> Sent: Sunday, November 28, 2010 1:50 PM
> To:  meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com
> Subject: [meteorite-list] BLACK  FRIDAY POP QUIZ Answer
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> Hello Listers,
>
> The answer  and winner to the Black Friday Pop Quiz is Calcalong Creek and
> the  winner is Ty. Thank all for submitting your answers.
>
>
>  Shawn Alan
> IMCA 1633
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>  [meteorite-list] BLACK FRIDAY POP QUIZ
> Shawn Alan photophlow at  yahoo.com
> Fri Nov 26 18:43:21 EST 2010
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>  Hello Listers,
>
> I have a special edition Black Friday Pop  Quiz.
>
> The name of the game, be the 10Th Listers to email me off  the list with 
the
> correct answer and you will win a 142mg Abee  meteorite.
>
> Question:
>
> Please tell me the most  expensive meteorite per gram is?
>
> Shawn Alan
> IMCA  1633
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