[meteorite-list] The Trials and Tribulations in Dealing with Landowners

[Mike Miller]

Yes the entire meteorites are "melted" (chemically) and all is lost
except for the olivine.

On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 9:15 AM, Michael Gilmer <meteoritemike at gmail.com> wrote:
> Are these meteorites actually being "melted down" for their peridot?
> What happens to the rest of the meteorite?  I was under the assumption
> that the peridots in question were salvaged from badly-oxidized
> specimens or were culled from peridots that fell out of the matrix.  I
> didn't realize whole pallasites were being rendered down to extract
> the peridots.
>
> Best regards,
>
> MikeG
>
>
> On 2/21/11, Mike Miller <meteoritefinder at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Just so we keep things straight the Admire meteorites are the ones
>> being melted down for their peridot and also the strewn field where
>> the landowner lives that was given big expectations about the returns
>> of the meteorites found on his land.
>>
>> On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 8:30 AM,  <cdtucson at cox.net> wrote:
>>> Adam,
>>> "One of the main problems is with trust."
>>> Speaking of trust. Is there a way to certify this material from Earth
>>> peridot?
>>> Wait until the eBay *posers* get word of this new Space Gem.
>>> Kaching, (sp)?
>>> Carl
>>> --
>>> Carl or Debbie Esparza
>>> Meteoritemax
>>>
>>>
>>> ---- Adam Hupe <raremeteorites at yahoo.com> wrote:
>>>> One of the main problems is with trust. This strewn field has been
>>>> available for
>>>> over 100 years and for all practical purposes now may be closed. It only
>>>> takes
>>>> one or two angry landowners to shut down the entire area to meteorite
>>>> hunters.
>>>> News of fraud, lawsuits and unpaid promised large sums of money, real or
>>>> imagined spread like wildfire through these rural communities.
>>>>
>>>> The quicker this is resolved, the better. The hunting tradition in this
>>>> area
>>>> dates back to the Kimberly's, Nininger and Haag.  It would be a shame to
>>>> see it
>>>> permanently off-limits now.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Unfortunately, I witnessed the same thing with with the avocation of
>>>> treasure
>>>> hunting which still has not recovered after 25 years.  Property owners
>>>> used to
>>>> grant permission freely to search but this is a rarity these days.
>>>>
>>>> Happy Hunting,
>>>>
>>>> Adam
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