💎 Seymchan Pallasite Meteorite Slice – Polished Olivine Crystals, Genuine Space Rock Specimen from Magadan District, Russia.

📐Size: 39.7×31.2×1.8 mm
⚖️Weight: 10.836 carats

First fund in 1967.

📍Seymchan belongs to the main group of meteorite pallasites. The pallasites are a class of stony iron meteorite. It consists of centimeter-sized olivine crystals of peridot quality in an iron nickel matrix. Coarser metal areas develop Widmanstätten patterns upon etching. Minor constituents are schreibersite, troilite, chromite, pyroxenes, and phosphates (whitlockite, stanfieldite, farringtonite, and merrillite). Scientists find that it contains a high percentage of iridium, a rare, silvery-white chemical element. Iridium is brittle, despite being considered to be one of the densest metals. On Earth, it’s found in ore mined from South Africa, Brazil, Russia, Australia, and Alaska, USA. Iridium is found in much higher abundance in meteorites than on Earth, which makes a case for asteroid mining.
Seymchan meteorites are attractive to collectors for various reasons; it has an interesting back story and slices can have many different appearances; some areas display olivine-rich clusters, while others consist almost entirely of nickel-iron. Worldwide interest in meteorites continues to grow and olivine-rich Seymchan specimens are now extremely difficult to acquire.

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