Metals detectors are just that metal detectors and are used in searching for
metal bearing H/L/LL/EL chondrites and irons.
Native iron in stoney achondrites is excedingly rare, only incidental, and
certainly in not in eucrites or diogenites. So neither metal detector nor
magnet would be suitable if looking for them specifically.
Sometimes metal is found in carbonaceous chondrites, aubrites, winnotites and
could be found in the other primative achodrites but hardly in more than
background quantities.
So in answer to your question, metal detectors are not suitable for detecting
achondrites as a whole. For now the eyeball is the best detector.
Elton
--- On Fri, 8/22/08, Pål Meland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Can anyone please tell me if it`s possible to use a metal
detector on a Achondrite (Eucrite, brecciated ) If so, what brand
and type.
Thanks
Paal,
Norway
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