October 13, 2023
METEORITE, SPRINGWATER CANADA PALLASITE, 204 GRAM INDIVIDUAL
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This is a 204.6 gram individual of one of the most beautiful pallasites in the world, it has lots of green to yellow olivine crystals.This specimen measures 90 x 37 x 30 millimeters. The specimen will be shipped with an specimen label.Three large masses (38.6 kg, 18.6 and 10.6 kg) of this pallasite were found near Springwater, Saskatchewan in 1931. Several years ago the Canadian government allowed the export of additional Springwater meteorites that were found by us during an extensive search.Thirty percent of the meteorite is the iron-rich metallic phases kamacite and taenite , with the rest mostly made up of olivine . There are minor amounts of other minerals, including several phosphates such as farringtonite (Mg3(PO4)2) that was first discovered in the Springwater meteorite, stanfieldite (Ca4(Mg,Fe)5(PO4)6) and merrillite.
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