Northwest Africa, CV3

This beautiful stone with weathered fluting and flow lines was purchased in Erfoud from Mohamed Benzaki.  473.53 + 242.43 gram fitting fragments.

NWA, ordinary chondrite I

This ordinary chondrite has one of the nicer shapes I’ve seen; it’s concave, and flares to a point.  It also has an …

NWA, ordinary chondrite II

This stone was one of the nicer ones we saw on our 2011 trip to Morocco.  It’s flight-marked with flow-lines and lipping; …

NWA, ordinary chondrite III

At the 2019 Tucson Gem and Mineral Show, Moussa Minerals seemed to be everywhere: they had multiple tents set up at Kino Park, …

Novato, L6

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Octave Mine, H5

This stone was found on Christmas day in 2004, by a metal-detectorist in Arizona.  It is classified as an H5 S1 W3. …

Olton, H3.5

When two stones were found near Olton, Texas in 1948, they were initially thought to be paired with each other — and …

Oum Dreyga (Amgala), H3-5

Amgala was a small fall that occurred in a remote part of Western Sahara; the meteorite itself is a pretty breccia of …