GOLD BASIC CHONDRITE METEORITES FOR SALE

The meteorite known as Gold Basin is an L4 chondrite found in Mojave County, Arizona in 1995. Jim Kriegh, a local hobby prospector and professor at the University of Arizona, stumbled upon the meteorite among arroyos while detecting for gold. Since its finding, well over 100 kilograms of material have been recovered and its strewn field is considered one of the oldest and most thoroughly mapped on Earth.

Gold Basin had been found by gold prospectors before, but its stones were usually dismissed as hot rocks before Kriegh's discovery. Though a low-iron variety of chondrite, it still has enough nickel-iron to set off metal detectors. It likely fell sometime during the Wisconsin Glaciation about 15,000 years ago. When sliced, this meteorite shows a multitude of gray to black silicate clasts with grains of detectable nickel-iron.
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