Meteorite NWA D’ORBIGNY ; Angrite 0. 44 Grams; Rarest Type Piece
Item History & Price
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Hello up for sale is the rarest type of meteorite, D’ORBIGNY known as a Angrite. This was recently purchased from Blaine Reed at the Tucson gem and mineral show 2019! It weighs 0.44 grams and was found in Argentina July, 1979.Angrites are also very ancient rocks. Recent crystallization ages ≥4.562 billion years have been reported for D'Orbigny (Amelin, 2007; Spivak-Birndorf et al., 2009) making it one of the oldest known differentiated rocks in the solar system.
D'OrbignyBuenos ...Aires, ArgentinaFound 1979 JulyAngriteA 16.55 kg stone, mostly covered with dark gray fusion crust, was found in a corn field after a farmer hit it with a plow. Classification and mineralogy (F. Brandstätter and G. Kurat, NHMV): has a subophitic texture, exhibiting laths of plagioclase (An>99, up to 2 mm) with subhedral to euhedral augite and anhedral to subhedral olivine; augite shows marked optical zoning, with cores containing 1.6 wt% TiO2, 7.8 wt% Al2O3, XMg [Mg/(Mg + Fe + Ca)] = 26.8 mol%, XFe = 21.9 mol%, and XCa = 51.2 mol%, and reddish-brown rims with 4.0 wt% TiO2, 8.0 wt% Al2O3, XMg = 0.6 mol%, XFe = 46.7 mol%, and XCa = 52.6 mol%; olivine is zoned, with cores having Fa39.7La1.3 (La = larnite), 0.9 wt% CaO, 0.13 wt% Cr2O3, 0.45 wt% MnO, and rims having Fa75.9La11.5, 6.6 wt% CaO, 0.12 wt% Cr2O3, 0.93 wt% MnO; in places, anhedral kirschsteinite (Fa62.0La34.0, 20.0 wt% CaO, 0.11 wt% Cr2O3, 0.75 wt% MnO) is intergrown with olivine; in places, abundant ultrabasic glass fills pore spaces (SiO2 ≈40 wt%); minor to accessory phases include transparent brownish spinel (up to 500 µm), ulvöspinel, troilite, and a silicophosphate; contains abundant round vugs, up to 2.3 cm in diameter, and druses containing augite and rare centimeter-sized green olivine crystals (Fa9–11); rock is fresh, but pores contain variable amounts of caliche. Specimens: main mass with finder; type specimen, 184 g, NHMV.
I will combine all shipping, $.25 each additional item..comes with priority shipping!One theory is that these extremely rare Meteorites come from the planet mercury!
D'OrbignyBuenos ...Aires, ArgentinaFound 1979 JulyAngriteA 16.55 kg stone, mostly covered with dark gray fusion crust, was found in a corn field after a farmer hit it with a plow. Classification and mineralogy (F. Brandstätter and G. Kurat, NHMV): has a subophitic texture, exhibiting laths of plagioclase (An>99, up to 2 mm) with subhedral to euhedral augite and anhedral to subhedral olivine; augite shows marked optical zoning, with cores containing 1.6 wt% TiO2, 7.8 wt% Al2O3, XMg [Mg/(Mg + Fe + Ca)] = 26.8 mol%, XFe = 21.9 mol%, and XCa = 51.2 mol%, and reddish-brown rims with 4.0 wt% TiO2, 8.0 wt% Al2O3, XMg = 0.6 mol%, XFe = 46.7 mol%, and XCa = 52.6 mol%; olivine is zoned, with cores having Fa39.7La1.3 (La = larnite), 0.9 wt% CaO, 0.13 wt% Cr2O3, 0.45 wt% MnO, and rims having Fa75.9La11.5, 6.6 wt% CaO, 0.12 wt% Cr2O3, 0.93 wt% MnO; in places, anhedral kirschsteinite (Fa62.0La34.0, 20.0 wt% CaO, 0.11 wt% Cr2O3, 0.75 wt% MnO) is intergrown with olivine; in places, abundant ultrabasic glass fills pore spaces (SiO2 ≈40 wt%); minor to accessory phases include transparent brownish spinel (up to 500 µm), ulvöspinel, troilite, and a silicophosphate; contains abundant round vugs, up to 2.3 cm in diameter, and druses containing augite and rare centimeter-sized green olivine crystals (Fa9–11); rock is fresh, but pores contain variable amounts of caliche. Specimens: main mass with finder; type specimen, 184 g, NHMV.
I will combine all shipping, $.25 each additional item..comes with priority shipping!One theory is that these extremely rare Meteorites come from the planet mercury!
