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METEORITE- Choice Unclassified NWA Lot - 10,000 gram #3
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* Special Offering - Priced at 15.5 cents per gram!
* I am offering what I consider are some of the BEST deals on Unclassified North West Africa Meteorites on Ebay! These Unclassified, Unsorted, Uncut Lots are from an old stash of NWA's that came available recently. You can't even buy or bring them back from Africa for what I am asking... when these are gone...I will be out. Over the years I have accumulated a lot of Unclassified Northwest Africa Meteorites. I am offering some of the choicest specimens that I have available and these will be sold at a great price. Make no mistake about it-just because they are unclassified does not mean they are not worth having. They very much are worth having and as time goes on, they are becoming extremely difficult to acquire. The days of the Great Saharan Meteorite Rush are very much over. Even though they are officially unclassified, on the specimen card that comes with each piece, I have given them an educated guess classification. Considering I have handled tons of Northwest Africa Meteorites, not to mention the fact that I have cut thousands of specimens, my educated guess is fairly accurate. NORTHWEST AFRICA- Unclassified - 10,000 gram, 10 kilo- specimen Lot ! Michael Cottingham’s Meteorite Collecting History and (Mini) Bio… I first started my cosmic journey with meteorites in 1996. I have always been interested in Natural History and ever since I was very young, I have collected rocks, fossils, artifacts and the like. In fact, I have been pretty darn good at finding unusual Natural History objects. However, I had never found a meteorite and I didn’t even know where to begin. So, I first started by buying a few specimens to see what they actually looked like. Then I would take these specimens out into the desert area where I live and I would place them on the ground. I was trying to train my “eye” to see differently. Sometimes, I would take my meteorite specimens and throw them as far as I could into the desert, and then I would go search for them. I started to search dry lake beds and dune areas in the Southern part of my state. In Jan/1997 I was searching an area East of Columbus, New Mexico and I finally did what most people though was impossible (especially my wife) … I found a NEW Meteorite! This was the Columbus , New Mexico , H5. There were seven small pieces of this chondrite and the total known weight at the time was only 184 grams. Since then I have recovered about 2 kilos of fragments. On an interesting note, it only took me about 300 hours to find my first meteorite! My wife and I had a bet going at the time of the Columbus find. She said, “If, If you find a new meteorite, then you can go anywhere in the world and go hunt!” Well, I did. I next took our bank savings and headed out to search the Imilac strewnfield in the Atacama Desert of Chile. This area had produced many meteorites, but was remote and difficult to search. I went there and found 20 kilos of Imilac Pallasite individuals. I sold most, bought more meteorites and continued to hunt for more… Over the next few years, I either personally found or recovered through research, the following meteorites: Correo, New Mexico (200 grams), Glorietta (~1kilo), Odessa, Texas (20 kilos), Wagon Mound (87.5kg), Portales Valley (600+ grams), Gold Basin (~5 kilos), Kermit, Texas (001-005, About ~200 grams), Floydada (b) (6.266kg), O’Donnell, Texas (12.7kg), Falsey Draw, New Mexico (4.18kg), Steins, New Mexico (New Stone!), Pasamonte (b), New Mexico , and Tolar, New Mexico. This is only a partial list of meteorites that I have recovered or discovered from the field… I love to hunt for these cosmic stones and in the hunting for meteorites, I have a discovered a passion for collecting and selling these space treasures, as well. You will find more about me and my meteorite adventures, spread throughout my Meteorite Collection for sale pages in my ebay store… This specimen is from the MICHAEL COTTINGHAM METEORITE COLLECTION and is...
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