[meteorite-list] Curry Montrose Meteorites and Mexico Doug

Wed Aug 31 12:11:40 EDT 2011

Hi Walter,

>People like Curry don't help the situation, not at any time. For me, 
this islocal, for you, this is far removed. Maybe you would be more 
concerned, moreinterested if this guy was selling meteor wrongs and 
mislabeled material inyour >neighborhood?Just my two cents,Walter L. 
Newton 

I have to agree with you, Steve Curry"s meteorites are bogus. I wonder 
if it would be helpful to focus attention towards educating the 
Colorado community. What about doing a few meteorite outreach programs 
in your community to help  the public. You could also set up a 
meteorite display showing the difference between meteorites and meteor 
wrongs. This would help out tremendously.

Sonny
www.nevadameteorites.com

-----Original Message-----
From: Walter L. Newton <newton at acrossthebow.com>
To: meteorite-list <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
Cc: mexicodoug <mexicodoug at aim.com>
Sent: Wed, Aug 31, 2011 4:17 am
Subject: [meteorite-list] Curry Montrose Meteorites and Mexico Doug

Doug,Why would you suggest that Montrose Altrusa would get involved 
inarbitrating the Curry phony meteorite controversy? Sandra Lee Tyler 
issimply a member of Altrusa, and she has a "position" on their 
YearbookCommittee. Montrose Altrusa has nothing to do with Steve 
Curry's "charities"and "scientific" organizations. Your suggestion that 
Montrose Altrusa wouldhave anything to do with these "meteorite" sales 
(like the ICMA) is silly.Why would they?And you mention that you 
haven't seen any of these Curry "meteorites." Well,here is some of the 
crap that he is personally 
selling...http://www.ebay.com/sch/uncometeorites/m.html?_trksid=p4340.l25
62... and if you have been reading the thread on Curry, you will 
realize thathe has managed to find other people and businesses in the 
Western part ofthe state of Colorado to start selling his junk, both on 
EBay and in brickand mortar stores. I say some of his junk in a rock 
shop just 3 weeks ago,in Cimarron, Colorado. The store owner wanted 
3000 dollars for a 30 gramiron which looked like a cleaned Nantan. 
Curry's "certificate" claim thepiece was park of the "Montrose Iron" 
fall, which of course doesn't exist.Since the meteorite list is for 
discussing meteorites, and it's not unusualfor the topic of meteor 
wrongs to come up on the list, I don't know why youwould complain about 
people using bandwidth to discuss Curry and his sludge?Maybe this 
doesn't idiot Curry doesn't effect you. But it's certainly ablack spot 
on meteorite sellers and collectors, especially ones in Colorado.It's 
hard enough to sell real meteorites to the general public. Many are 
noteven aware that private individuals can own such material, and 
whenpresented with a meteorite, many guffaw and claim "how did you get 
a realmeteorite" or something similar. Last summer I had about 200 
grams of UNWA'sin a display at a very popular rock shop up here in the 
Colorado Rockies, ashop frequented by a lot of summer tourists, and we 
couldn't move a singlegram, mainly because customers would scoff at 
them, claiming they can't bereal. When I started collecting over 10 
years ago, I was amazed thatsomething as wonderful as a meteorite could 
actually be legally owned bymyself.People like Curry don't help the 
situation, not at any time. For me, this islocal, for you, this is far 
removed. Maybe you would be more concerned, moreinterested if this guy 
was selling meteor wrongs and mislabeled material inyour 
neighborhood?Just my two cents,Walter L. 
Newton Websitehttp://newton.acrossthebow.com/ Jewelryhttp://www.etsy.com/
shop/hummingbirdcustom Wiki 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Never_Promised_You_a_Rose_Garden_(play)  Doug 
wrote...Since we only see one side of this dispute on the list, If you 
guys ever tire of sparring with Mr. Curry, why don't you just ask Ms. 
Sandra Lee, his very respected housemate (listed in the white pages at 
their same address) whether she can help you resolve your suspicions 
since she has responsibility in the matter as well. She apparently is a 
member of the large worldwide organization Altrusa, an NGO which is 
dedicated to community service for the betterment of the world and 
especially those less fortunate and I am sure they would take it upon 
themselves to set the record straight, much like the IMCA does. If you 
truly think there is something not right about the stones, Ms. Sandra 
can be reached at : LEETYLER6 at GMAIL.COM according to Mr. Curry's 
Colorado Charitable organization application in 2011, Google-able on 
the internet. But if the email doesn't work just call or email the 
Montrose Altrusa and I'm sure they'll offer to help out in any dispute 
among its members since as the Chairman/Treasurer of the Charitable 
organization Mr. Curry is working under, it is actually she who would 
be responsible for the money generated by the charitable meteorite 
sales, not Mr. Curry, who is simply the president, according to: 
http://www.sos.state.co.us/ccsa/ViewReports.do?evEntityType=CO&ceId=70100&evAltrusa 
Montrose is at: http://www.altrusa.blogspot.com/ However if you contact 
them and it turns out the rocks are authentic, you should publically 
apologize profusely. I haven't seen the stones, so actually I don't 
know anything about this dispute, but it is tying up a lot of bandwidth 
so that is my 2 centavos. Kindest wishes 
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