[Rockhounds] Meteorite found while looking for gold

[Peter Richards]

Oh, dear. The last sentence in the top article is "Next time you see a funky-looking rock, maybe you should try taking a second look; you never know when you might actually have a meteorite on your hands.”  This notion is one of the major curses of all serious mineral collectors, mineralogists, and geologists, who have to try to persuade one explorer after another that, no, in fact, it’s not a meteorite, it’s just a hunk of ordinary iron-rich rock!  One hopes the readers will try reading the article a second time carefully ("taking a second look”), because it does a pretty good job of laying out the major clues….
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R. Peter Richards, Ph.D.
rpr at heidelberg.edu
Morphological Crystallographer

> On Sep 27, 2019, at 9:09 PM, Paul <etchplain at att.net> wrote:
> 
> Man thinks he found gold; he actually found a
> rare meteorite By Emma Reed, September 24, 2019
> https://www.science101.com/man-thinks-found-gold-rare-meteorite/
> 
> Also, elsewhere, edscottite found in meteorite
> 
> Extraterrestrial Mineral Never Before Seen
> 
> on Earth Found Inside a Famous Meteorite
> 
> By Yasemin Saplakoglu, Live Science
> 
> https://www.livescience.com/new-extraterrestrial-mineral-edscottite-meteorite.html
> 
> Scientists Confirm The Discovery of a Mineral
> 
> Never Before Seen in Nature. Science Alert
> 
> https://www.sciencealert.com/mineral-never-seen-in-nature-found-buried-in-heart-of-mysterious-meteorite
> 
> This meteorite came from the core of another planet.
> 
> Inside it, a new mineral By Liam Mannix, The Age
> 
> https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/this-meteorite-came-from-the-core-of-another-planet-inside-it-a-new-mineral-20190830-p52mhg.html
> 
> The paper is:
> 
> Ma, C. and Rubin, A.E., 2019. Edscottite, Fe5C2,
> 
> a new iron carbide mineral from the Ni-rich
> 
> Wedderburn IAB iron meteorite. American
> 
> Mineralogist, 104(9), pp.1351-1355.
> 
> https://www.degruyter.com/view/j/ammin.2019.104.issue-9/am-2019-7102/am-2019-7102.xml
> 
> https://pubs.geoscienceworld.org/msa/ammin/article/104/9/1351/573345/edscottite-fe5c2-a-new-iron-carbide-mineral-from
> 
> Yours,
> 
> Paul H.
> 
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