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Saturday, 28 December 2019

Edscottite found in Wedderburn IAB iron meteorite 28DEC2019

 Edscottite found in Wedderburn IAB iron meteorite

Scientists Have Officially Found a Mineral Never Before Seen in Nature
Peter Dockrill, Science Alerts, December 25, 2019

the paper is:

Ma, C. and Rubin, A.E., 2019. Edscottite, Fe5C2, a new
iron carbide mineral from the Ni-rich Wedderburn
IAB iron meteorite. American Mineralogist, 104(9), pp.1351-1355.

Yours,

Paul H.

Tuesday, 1 April 2008

Sardis Iron

Sardis Iron

Paul bristolia at yahoo.com
Tue Apr 1 12:08:27 EDT 2008

Sean T. Murray wrote:

“There is a write-up on Sardis that was on the Georgia
Mineral Newsletter, Volume IX, No. 4, Winter 1956 (part 1)
and Volume X, No. 4, Winter 1957 titled "Meteorites in
Georgia" by E. P. Henderson and A. S. Furcron. (There
are also reprint of the document from 1966). From the
Department of Mines, Mining, & Geology, 19 Hunter
Street S.W., Atlanta, Georgia.”

Two other references for the Sardis Iron are:

Henderson, E. P. and Cooke, C. W., 1942, The Sardis (Georgia)
meteorite. Proceedings of the U S. National Museum. vol. 92,
pp. 141—150.

V. F. Buchwald, V. F., 1977, The Mineralogy of Iron Meteorites.
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series
A, Mathematical and Physical Sciences, Vol. 286, No. 1336,
pp. 453-491.

Yours,

Paul H.