Re: [meteorite-list] EBAY Slag for sale

2007-07-09 Thread Randy Korotev
nces, all far too "geological" for me!) My half-cent's worth. Sterling K. Webb --- - Original Message ----- From: "Randy Korotev" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Friday, July 06, 2007 9:52 AM Subject: Re

Re: [meteorite-list] EBAY Slag for sale

2007-07-06 Thread Norm Lehrman
: [EMAIL PROTECTED], meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] EBAY Slag for sale Date: Fri, 6 Jul 2007 15:35:37 EDT >Colorado is very rich in slag too. >For nearly a century CF & I operated a large smelter just south of Pueblo. >There are still "hills"

Re: [meteorite-list] EBAY Slag for sale

2007-07-06 Thread kevin decker
Georgia is rich in Iron ore mining/smelting.I just yesterday was given some black glassy chunks.I thought h..Impact material/tektite?..I mean these chunks are Huge!..I just today did the test described on Norms site "the Tektite Source"..with an oxy/acetylene torch.I didn't froth up like pic 1,

Re: [meteorite-list] EBAY Slag for sale

2007-07-06 Thread Impactika
Colorado is very rich in slag too. For nearly a century CF & I operated a large smelter just south of Pueblo. There are still "hills" of slag all around it. And slag was found to be cheap and very practical to build the under-laying layers of roads and rail-road tracks, it is solid and does n

Re: [meteorite-list] EBAY Slag for sale

2007-07-06 Thread Sterling K. Webb
My half-cent's worth. Sterling K. Webb --- - Original Message - From: "Randy Korotev" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Friday, July 06, 2007 9:52 AM Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] EBAY Slag for sale At 14:59 05-07-07 Thursday, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: &

Re: [meteorite-list] EBAY Slag for sale

2007-07-06 Thread Randy Korotev
At 14:59 05-07-07 Thursday, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't know why this slag tests positive for nickel, but it does! People have been making iron and disposing of the waste for several hundred years in this area and much of the US. The most common kinds of local meteorwrong I encounter

Re: [meteorite-list] EBAY Slag for sale

2007-07-05 Thread STARSANDSCOPES
Hi List, The slag that Herman and Randy are talking about can be very enticing to those not familiar with it and really want to see what they want to see. About 5 years ago I was fooled. While hunting for meteorites in an area around Las Vegas I found some stones that were high iron and

[meteorite-list] EBAY Slag for sale

2007-07-05 Thread Metorman46
Randy and list members; Thanks for the post Randy.I went to a local cut limestone iron furnace a while back and picked up a lot of these types of specimens.The furnace was operated from 1825-1849 and was fired with wood.There were hundreds of these types of furnaces scattered throughout th

Re: [meteorite-list] EBAY Slag for sale

2007-07-04 Thread Randy Korotev
MAIL PROTECTED], meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] EBAY Slag for sale Date: Sat, 30 Jun 2007 17:23:54 -0400 Hi, all, Too much effort, Paul. Who has the time to spend on such a petty thief? I think that this link for wrongs on eBay should be prominent on the &qu

Re: [meteorite-list] EBAY Slag for sale

2007-06-30 Thread Impactika
In a message dated 6/30/2007 3:38:44 P.M. Mountain Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've just discovered that that great eBay warning site http://home.earthlink.net/~magellon/wrongs1.html is due to the efforts of the List's Ken Newton. Take a bow, Ken! ---

Re: [meteorite-list] EBAY Slag for sale

2007-06-30 Thread greg stanley
not be ground? Anyways he is a real meteorite magnet it seems. Mark M. - Original Message - From: "Bill" To: "Pete Pete" Cc: Sent: Thursday, June 28, 2007 8:19 PM Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] EBAY Slag for sale > Yeah. > Starchasers is a good one. Meteorites

Re: [meteorite-list] EBAY Slag for sale

2007-06-30 Thread Pete Pete
ed. I can see eBay's dilemma, otherwise no one would be able to sell any unclassified stone. Caveat emptor. Cheers, Pete From: Paul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] EBAY Slag for sale Date: Sat, 30 Jun 2007 11:52:37

Re: [meteorite-list] EBAY Slag for sale

2007-06-30 Thread Pete Pete
ified stone. Caveat emptor. Cheers, Pete From: Paul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] EBAY Slag for sale Date: Sat, 30 Jun 2007 11:52:37 -0700 (PDT) On Jun 28 23:19:27 EDT 2007, Bill wrote: "Starchasers is a good one. Me

Re: [meteorite-list] EBAY Slag for sale

2007-06-30 Thread Paul
On Jun 28 23:19:27 EDT 2007, Bill wrote: "Starchasers is a good one. Meteorites falling in his general direction constantly. All new Illinois finds too. Look at his 454 GRAM IRON NICKEL METEORITE SPECIMEN." ...text deletedÂ… another person wrote: " Here's another one selling common filth as

[meteorite-list] EBAY Slag for sale + "grinded" (slightly OT)

2007-06-29 Thread bernd . pauli
Mark M. wondered: "Grinded? What the hell is grinded? Would that not be ground?" to grind - ground or (Rare) => grinded Well, and if you want to know where I "finded" :-)) this piece of information: RANDOM HOUSE WEBSTER'S UNABRIDGED DICTIONARY Cheers, Bernd __

Re: [meteorite-list] EBAY Slag for sale

2007-06-29 Thread Mark
Jun 2007 22:01:27 -0400 To: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Subject: [meteorite-list] EBAY Slag for sale Hi, all, Here's another one selling common filth as expensive meteorites on eBay - with some victims making bids, too: http://cgi.ebay.co

Re: [meteorite-list] EBAY Slag for sale

2007-06-28 Thread Bill
gt; To: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com > Subject: [meteorite-list] EBAY Slag for sale > > Hi, all, > > Here's another one selling common filth as expensive meteorites on eBay - > with some victims making bids, too: > > http://cgi.eba

[meteorite-list] EBAY Slag for sale

2007-06-28 Thread Pete Pete
Hi, all, Here's another one selling common filth as expensive meteorites on eBay - with some victims making bids, too: http://cgi.ebay.com/L-K-MESOSIDERITE-STONY-IRON-METEORITE-72-GRAM-SLICE_W0QQitemZ190125694315QQihZ009QQcategoryZ3239QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem If that link doesn't