All, As a full-time professional Nevada rock-licker, I get property submittals almost daily. There are some pretty fail-safe red flags that can be used to sort out the "pure 100%...debris" (to use some of the ebay seller's own words) from the potential winners.
If it requires some sort of special analytical approach to detect, or if it has gold, silver, platinum, gadolinium, indium, and hydrocarbons, etc., etc., all together in vast amounts, or if all the local experts that have seen it agree that it's marvelous, OR if it was discovered by a state-of-the-art detection instrument set to a special frequency from "a mind-boggling distance of three miles" (again, the seller's own words) there's your clue! The last item, which pertains to this offering, is the seller's subtle way of assuring you that no real scientific instrument was involved. For sure, if there was such a device, I would be out of a job and metals would have virtually no value given their ease of discovery! I always find ebay offerings introduced at thousands of dollars starting bids BEFORE any final verification or documentation is in hand to be a pretty solid clue as well--- I vote terrestrial, probably magnetite. Note that the seller says "it is not a ruster". Magnetite (or maghemite, another candidate), already being an oxide, doesn't rust. How many irons have been found that don't rust? Cheers, Norm Lehrman (http://tektitesource.com) --- Randy Mils <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: --------------------------------- Search on item # 2255992757 Opinions?????? Randy --------------------------------- FREE pop-up blocking with the new MSN Toolbar – get it now! > ______________________________________________ > Meteorite-list mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list > ______________________________________________ Meteorite-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list