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Meteorites
Collecting meteorite in QLD ILLEGAL?
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<blockquote data-quote="user 4386" data-source="post: 343287" data-attributes="member: 4386"><p>Yes, that is the Hoba meteorite, largest known nickel-iron meteorite in the world. And yes, they have excavated it and put an ampitheatre around it. You can see a tiny slice (shiny) taken off the edge where our mineralogist, Bruno Geir, cut a slice for study more than half a century ago. We used to have to hunt for it in the rain forest.<img src="https://www.prospectingaustralia.com/forum/img/member-images/4386/1498907732_hoba2.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="user 4386, post: 343287, member: 4386"] Yes, that is the Hoba meteorite, largest known nickel-iron meteorite in the world. And yes, they have excavated it and put an ampitheatre around it. You can see a tiny slice (shiny) taken off the edge where our mineralogist, Bruno Geir, cut a slice for study more than half a century ago. We used to have to hunt for it in the rain forest.[img]https://www.prospectingaustralia.com/forum/img/member-images/4386/1498907732_hoba2.jpg[/img] [/QUOTE]
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