To: MtnClimber; SunkenCiv; nickcarraway
2 posted on
11/30/2021 6:34:28 AM PST by
Red Badger
(Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
To: Red Badger
So, how much is it worth?
1088 ounces of gold would be worth about $1.3 million, or so.
3 posted on
11/30/2021 6:37:33 AM PST by
Jonty30
(I love giving directions, because it is like me to tell people where to go and how to get there.)
To: Red Badger
If it’s worth more than gold, how much did the scientists pay him for it, or do they just simply take it?
Maybe Fauci told them he was science, after all, and one shouldn’t question him/it.
5 posted on
11/30/2021 6:40:14 AM PST by
Alas Babylon!
(Rush, we're missing your take on all of this!)
To: Red Badger
Was this a Mel Brooks movie?
6 posted on
11/30/2021 6:40:31 AM PST by
Track9
(Agamemnon came home to a HRC type party. )
To: Red Badger
If this had happened recently, I’m sure under Australia COVID law the museum would take possession of rock without any compensation to the finder.
7 posted on
11/30/2021 6:41:38 AM PST by
CatOwner
(Don't expect anyone, even conservatives, to have your back when the SHTF in 2021.)
To: Red Badger
All he had to do was to put a magnet on it
9 posted on
11/30/2021 6:42:12 AM PST by
zeebee
( The left thinks they can train smart people to be stupid.)
To: Red Badger
Forwarded to my geologist cousin who is a consultant for a gold mine. Maybe he’s looking for the wrong stuff.
11 posted on
11/30/2021 6:43:38 AM PST by
libertylover
(Our biggest problem, by far, is that most of the media is hate & agenda driven, not truth driven.)
To: Red Badger
In very rough terms, the math in my head, it looks like about $150 per pound for iron, and up to a thousand times more for rarer mineral mixes. Given the rarity as described, I’m going to speculate that it’s easily more than an equivalent amount of gold. http://www.meteorlab.com/METEORLAB2001dev/pricing.htm
13 posted on
11/30/2021 6:46:06 AM PST by
j.havenfarm
(20 years on Free Republic, 12/10/20! More than 3700 replies and still not shutting up!)
To: Red Badger
I recall seeing a meteorite exhibit at the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry (OMSI) in the late 70’s.
One meteorite from somewhere in South America had been meticulously cut/carved/polished into a wrench...It was odd to look at with it’s dark hue and specks of ‘shiny bits’ - also it was not offset which to my mechanical mind still bugs me to this day...
15 posted on
11/30/2021 6:46:56 AM PST by
BBB333
(The Power Of Trump Compels You!)
To: Red Badger
I found a rock that looked just like that, only twice as big and too heavy for me to carry home. Story of my life. 🙂
To: Red Badger
It should be worth at least $10 per gram, probably much more.
$10 per gram would be $170,000. As larger meteorites go for more per gram, it would possibly go for $50 per gram, which would $850,000.
I would not expect it to go for more, because it is not flashy or obviously, visually, meteoric.
But large, intact meteorites such as this are very rare. An auction would determine the real value.
The above is based on a few minutes researching the subject on the internet.
19 posted on
11/30/2021 6:55:51 AM PST by
marktwain
(President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries. )
To: Red Badger
So the museum glommed onto the meteorite and kept it. And ol’ Dave got bupkiss! They didn’t even name it after him. But to name it the “D.Hole Meteorite” would not have lent it much shine or sizzle, would it? Good thing his birth name wasn’t Alfred, though.
20 posted on
11/30/2021 6:57:37 AM PST by
Tucker39
("It is impossible so to rightly govern a nation without God and the Bible." George Washington )
To: Red Badger
We know a guy who works for a jewelry maker. He fashions meteorites into expensive wedding rings. Very pretty stuff.
26 posted on
11/30/2021 7:04:59 AM PST by
lurk
( )
To: Red Badger
More valuable than gold?
So what did they pay him for his find?
Looks like ZERO!
31 posted on
11/30/2021 7:17:59 AM PST by
G Larry
(The "Racism" charge is code for "No Intelligent Argument")
To: Red Badger; Fred Nerks
Geez Fred, they keep talking your goodies from your back yard!
35 posted on
11/30/2021 7:29:03 AM PST by
Candor7
((Obama Fascism:http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html))
To: Red Badger
Looks like a “rock” to me. I already have too many of those. (rocks).
39 posted on
11/30/2021 8:24:19 AM PST by
faucetman
(Just the facts, ma'am, Just the facts )
To: Red Badger
Not sure carbon dating the rock is appropriate. Carbon dating is usually done on once living things.
46 posted on
11/30/2021 12:48:19 PM PST by
Getready
(Wisdom is more valuable than gold and diamonds, and harder to find.)
To: Red Badger
48 posted on
11/30/2021 7:34:16 PM PST by
LastDayz
(A blunt and brazen Texan. I will not be assimilated.)
To: Red Badger
He should have tried a Hole saw.
49 posted on
12/01/2021 5:58:17 AM PST by
BubbaBasher
("Liberty will not long survive the total extinction of morals" - Sam Adams)
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