Re: [meteorite-list] Diamonds and Ureilites

2009-12-01 Thread Gary Fujihara
I don't know the answer to your question Greg, but Gary Huss at UH Hawaii Institute of Geophysics and Planetology showed me a huge Ureilite slab that was cut on a wire saw that had large 2-5mm grooves in it. He said that the diamonds were so hard that the wire went around them in the matrix of

[meteorite-list] Diamonds and Ureilites

2009-12-01 Thread Greg Stanley
List: I was wondering if anyone knows which Ureilite contains the most diamonds, and how much (perhaps by percent) it contains.  I've read that they are often difficult to cut because of the diamonds in the matrix. Much Thanks, Greg S. __