METEORITE- NEW Iron From Egypt -GEBEL KAMIL - 208g

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Here is a Stunning 208 gram, 1/2 Individual of The New Iron From Egypt Called GEBEL KAMIL! Most of this new iron meteorite is owned by the Egyptian Government. Another 300 to 400 kilos have made it out onto the open market. Most of this is owned by one individual, and the rest has mostly been sold. This first material was all surface collected pieces which show the fine desert varnish and polish. ANY material that might be uncovered in the future with metal detectors will not look like the current pieces on the market. They will not be this nice! This is a special new meteorite and is fast disappearing into collector's cabinets! See Meteoritical Bulletin Below For More Information: Gebel Kamil [coordinates under review]East Uweinat Desert, EgyptFound: 19 Feb 2009Classification: Iron meteorite (ungrouped) History : A total of about 1600 kg of iron meteorite shrapnel (thousands of pieces), ranging in mass from < 1 to 35,000 g, plus a single 83 kg individual completely covered with well developed regmaglypts, was found in and around the 45 m diameter Kamil impact crater by an Italian-Egyptian geophysical team in February 2009 and February 2010. Ca. 800 kg of the total mass observed in the field (the regmaglypted individual inclusive) was recovered. The Kamil crater was identified by V. De Michele, former curator of the Natural History Museum in Milan, Italy. The geophysical survey was carried out within the framework of the "2009 Italian-Egyptian Year of Science and Technology". Physical characteristics : A 634 g type specimen, measuring 88 x 70 x 55 mm, is flattened and jagged shrapnel with a rough, dark-brown external surface. The surface originally sitting in the desert soil shows some oxy-hydroxides due to terrestrial weathering. Petrography : (M. D’Orazio, DST-PI ; Luigi Folco, MNA-SI ) Etched sections show an ataxitic structure interrupted on a centimetric scale by crystals of schreibersite, troilite and daubreelite enveloped in swathing kamacite. Kamacite spindles (20 ± 5 μm wide) nucleated on tiny schreibersite crystals. The spindles form small aligned clusters and are rimmed by taenite. The matrix is a duplex plessite made of approximately the same proportion of kamacite and taenite lamellae (1-5 μm in thickness) arranged in a micro-Widmanstätten pattern. Many sections show, particularly close to the external surface, shear dislocations offsetting the plessitic matrix and the crystals of the accessory phases by several millimeters. Geochemistry : (M. D’Orazio, DST-PI ) Composition of the metal (ICP-MS; D’Orazio and Folco 2003) is Co = 0.75, Ni = 19.8 (both in wt%), Cu = 464, Ga = 49, Ge = 121, As = 15.6, Mo = 9.1, Ru = 2.11, Rh = 0.75, Pd = 4.8, Sn = 2.49, Sb = 0.26, W = 0.66, Re = 0.04, Ir = 0.39, Pt = 3.5, Au = 1.57 (all in ppm). Reference: D’Orazio M. and Folco L. (2003) Chemical analysis of iron meteorites by inductively coupled plasma - mass spectrometry. Geostandards Newsletter: The Journal of Geostandards and Geoanalysis 27, 215-225. Classification : (M. D’Orazio, DST-PI ; Luigi Folco, MNA-SI ) Iron meteorite (ungrouped), Ni-rich ataxite, extensive shear deformation and low weathering. Specimens : Type specimens: ca. 15 kg and one section at MNA-SI ; ca. 5 kg at DST-PI . Main mass of the recovered specimens at Egyptian Geological Museum (Mineral Resources Authority), Cairo, Egypt. 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” ... read more

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