frank c Posted February 9, 2013 Report Posted February 9, 2013 I was lucky enough to get a solid smooth LOUD signal an lo an behold a 588 grammer probably one of the last of its kind in the area. A sweet find.
oldies1955 Posted February 9, 2013 Report Posted February 9, 2013 Man....thats biggen! Im surprised as hard as that area has been hit that it was out there.Are you going to sell it?Tom
Border Boy Posted February 9, 2013 Report Posted February 9, 2013 Wow!! Frank what a find, is that a gold basin? Great job bro!!
frank c Posted February 9, 2013 Author Report Posted February 9, 2013 Tom, Ya never know BB You are correct a rare find
carms Posted February 10, 2013 Report Posted February 10, 2013 ok now i feel a little dumb, it doesnt look like a meteorite or a speci...unless that darkish orange area...or area's are the gold? sorry i only hunt in Australia so i havnt seen something like that before...almost looks like granite
Admin nuggethunting Posted February 10, 2013 Admin Report Posted February 10, 2013 Hey Frank, Yep, those 500+ Grammers are rare now. About 10 years ago finding 100+ grammers were common, 500+ grammers rare, but one here and there and then every so often a 1000+ Grammer. A friend of mine spent 3 years camping at Gold Basin hunting 6 days a week. He collected over 60,000 Grams of the Gold Basin. I never seen so many pieces, but it filled several 2 gallons plastic containers and he sold a good portion of them in Quartzsite for cash money. He got hard up for cash about 2-3 years ago and called and said he would sell his last remaining shoe box full of Gold Basins for .30 cents a gram. I thought about it, probably should have done it. Congrats on your find, big ones are tough to come by now. Wishing you many more ....Rob Allison
frank c Posted February 10, 2013 Author Report Posted February 10, 2013 Yeah Rob .30 a G U SHOULDA. I remember Jim Smaller buying a load from John Wolf at .30 "an offer he couldn't refuse" Carms google Gold Basin Arizona
DOC Posted February 10, 2013 Report Posted February 10, 2013 Carms, it's an L4 Chondrite meteorite from Gold Basin. About 33000 years old.. They are stony iron composition with the metal primarily being nickle. Doc
Ugbomb510 Posted February 10, 2013 Report Posted February 10, 2013 Wow... Gonna get it sliced? Maybe some space gemstones? lol.. impressive
frank c Posted February 10, 2013 Author Report Posted February 10, 2013 Ugbomb I have plenty of others that are sliced no need to cut this one.
justindoober Posted February 10, 2013 Report Posted February 10, 2013 Awesome frank!!! that is the biggest one i have seen.
Ugbomb510 Posted February 10, 2013 Report Posted February 10, 2013 Well if ya got a bunch.. I concur. Good job yet again.! Ugs
carms Posted February 14, 2013 Report Posted February 14, 2013 thanks doc, our meteorites looks a touch different...or maybe i havnt found one big enough! lol
Heybeerman Posted February 15, 2013 Report Posted February 15, 2013 Cool find!What would be a "normal" price per gram?
frank c Posted February 15, 2013 Author Report Posted February 15, 2013 Blake I don't know what is deemed "normal". Small pieces are plentiful and inexpensive. I researched a bunch of completed listings sold and found only a few 200 gmmrs. that ranged from 1.25 to 1.50 a gm. Couldn't find any large pieces sold like this size. But it makes you think it would be a minium of 1.75 or so
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