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INFORMATION ABOUT CRYSTALS & MINERALS
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NANTAN METEORITE
Nantan, China
Iron Meteorite
(92.35% Iron, 6.96% Nickel)
These meteorites are from a rare witnessed fall event. This meteorite impact
ocurred in May of 1516, in Nantan, China. Then in 1958 local farmers collected
them when China was in need of steel to push the country "Great Leap
Forward" advocated by Mao Zetung. They have a coarse octahedral structure.
On average the composition is 92.35% Iron, 6.96% Nickel with minor amounts
of Carbon, Copper, Cobalt, Sulphur, Phosphorus, Cromium, Gallenium, Germanium,
and many different trace elements. The are a number of scarce minerals found
in it, including kamacite, taenite, plessite, scheribersite, triolite, graphite,
spherlite, sideroferrite, dyslytite, cliftonite and lawrencite.
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The Nantan meteorite specimens below (NT6 - NT11)are hand-selected, attractive pieces. You will receive the actual specimen in the photo.
| #NT-12a.
Nantan Meteorite, 11.4 grams in weight. $12
#NT-12b. Nantan Meteorite, 10.5 grams in weight. $11 #NT-12c. Nantan Meteorite, 9.9 grams in weight. $10 |
| #NT-13a.
Nantan Meteorite, 7.0 - 7.9 grams in weight. $9 each #NT-13b. Nantan Meteorite, 6.4 - 6.9 grams in weight. $8 each #NT-13c. Nantan Meteorite, 5.0 - 5.7 grams in weight. $7 each |
| #NT-14a.
Nantan Meteorite, 4.0 - 4.9 grams in weight. $6 each #NT-14b. Nantan Meteorite, 3.0 - 3.9 grams in weight. $5 each #NT-14c. Nantan Meteorite, 2.0 - 2.9 grams in weight. $4 each |
| #NT-15
Nantan Meteorite, 1.0 - 1.8 grams in weight. $3 each SOLD OUT |
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