Melrose (a) Meteorite - RARE/ HISTORIC - H. Nininger, Gold Bearing, 1933 - IMCA

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*** From The David L. Ribeca Meteorite Collection ***
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**VERY RARE & HISTORIC
- Up for sale is a .079 gram Melrose (a), Classified L5, gold bearing, Chondrite.... It was first purchased, owned, and studied by Dr. Harvey Nininger in 1933.... This is a very hard to find, rare and historic, Meteorite specimen.... TKW = 36.4Kg.... Found in Curry County, New Mexico, 1933.... The 1cm3 cube is not included in this sale.
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History
Melrose (a) meteorite was found by a farmer in Melrose, New Mexico, while plowing. For a couple years the farmer used it as a weight on one of the farm implements. It was here that Nininger found the true nature of the meteorite in 1933 and discovered that the Melrose (a) meteorite had the highest gold content of any meteorite and still does to this date.
What makes this meteorite most extraordinary is that it’s the highest know gold content in any meteorite. 0.0017 oz. gold per ton are acceptable for mining operations, the Melrose (a) samples yielded 0.30 oz and 0.32oz per ton respectively. This could mean that there is an ore-grade asteroid out there with much gold to someday mine.
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