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kilograms was recovered. Here are some slices from some material that
Mike Martinez and Blaine Reed picked up at the Tucson Show in 2006. I
got the thrill of cutting this material for Blaine (NOT easy, this one
contains plenty of blade busting diamonds). We had bought several
fragments from a large piece that weighted about 9 kilograms that was
broken apart at the show. The largest piece 6 kilograms was assigned
NWA 2218 and went to Canada with David Gregory and is going to be
donated to the Royal Ontario Museum. We have no idea where the other
pieces went. Research work showed this material to be mineralogically
unusual. It has a lower pyroxene content than most ureilites and is
composed mostly of olivine with graphite and micro-diamonds.