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ANOTHER METEOR-WRONG

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Silicon John

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Just got back from two weeks at Quartzsite, AZ. Only took the metal detector out one time. On that trip after I got tired of all the trash around where cars would park off road, I took out to the quiet of the open desert. After quite a walk I got a hot rock signal. I had a magnet on my pick so tested it and whee I thought I had found a meteorite.

In the attached photo shows the hot rock with a curved small (1 1/4 inch) magnet attached. The magnet was a segment from an experimental brush-less DC motor used on the IBM 3390 disk storage system. It liked the rock and latched on tight.

I did know that there was magnetite in the area as years ago I had found a lodestone but that was miles away. So when I got home I ground off one side with a diamond wheel and there was a streak of quartz under the desert varnish. No meteorite has quartz attached. Oh darn! You can see the white quartz in the second photo.
 
Nice looking lovestone...but, keep looking you will find a wild one someday...I usually carry a 10x loop with me now that my eyes have started letting me down...I dug and carried a large, giant "meteorite"back to camp one day because I couldn't see what I needed to see...a loop is light-weight and much easier to carry than 10-20 pounds of wrongness.

fred
 
My wife and I like to prospect and detect in Quartzsite, In fact we were down there from Jan 17 to 29 buying stuff for our new trailer and lots of stuff from all the vendors. We both had found rocks like your showing and we also thought we had found meteorites. Don't give up as I found a stony meteorite out by the Livingston mine where the Gpaa has a claim. I had it authenticated by the Gentleman that operates the rock shop at Knotts Berry farm.Its almost as good as finding gold as its from outer space,your probably the first person to ever hold it or see it. All though its small I have it on display in my living room and I consider just as valuable as the first gold I found or the first coin I found. Moondog
 
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