![]() ![]() We can accept credit cards on most items (through Paypal), cashiersĬhecks and money orders. To place your order, or if you have any questions please feel free to email us: CONTACT Unusual 63g Etched Gibeon Slab! Price: ONLY $465.00 SOLD! Lovely 132g Etched Gibeon Slab! Price: ONLY SOLD!īeautiful 67g Etched Gibeon Slab! Price: ONLY $469.00 SOLD! Iron, Fine Octahedrite Namibia, Africa Meteorites are among the most rare materials in existence, and iron meteorites are rarer still. Superb 119g Etched Gibeon Slice for Bolsters! Price: SOLD!īeautiful 69g Etched Gibeon Slab! Price: ONLY SOLD!īeautiful 124g Etched Gibeon Slab! Price: ONLY SOLD!Īmazing 135g Etched Gibeon Slab! Price: ONLY SOLD! Gorgeous 142g Etched Gibeon Meteorite, part slice! SOLD!īeautiful 91g Etched Gibeon Meteorite, part slice! SOLD! Gorgeous 198g Etched Gibeon Meteorite, part slice! SOLD! Gorgeous 121g Etched Gibeon Meteorite, part slice! NEW! Gorgeous 158g Etched Gibeon Meteorite, part slice! SOLD! Buyers beware!Ĭlick on the images below for photos and details: Less experienced individuals could easily be fooled by the superficially similar appearance of muonionalusta to Gibeon, and given the large quantities of muonionalusta apparently being sold as Gibeon these days, it is more important than ever to buy from meteorite experts. Unlike many, we are experienced professional meteorite dealers and we Guarantee our Gibeon meteorite's authenticity. When we looked them up online, they were selling what appeared to be the exact same product as "Gibeon" meteorite jewelry! Who knows how much fake "Gibeon" has been sold to unsuspecting buyers. They said that they needed up to one ton of muonionalusta per year! They sent us a photo showing an example of their meteorite jewelry (which appeared to us to be plated). We informed them that muonionalusta was not suitable for jewelry but that didn't phase them a bit. We were recently contacted by a Chinese jewelry manufacturer looking to buy large quantities of Muonionalusta meteorites for use in jewelry and for resale. When made into jewelry, Muonionalusta is often so unstable that it needs to be plated with some precious metal to temporarily keep it from rusting away. Muonionalusta is what we refer to as a "Ruster" meteorite. Muonionalusta meteorites looks superficially similar to Gibeon when cut and etched, however, in our experience they tend to be much more prone to rusting, much more common and much, much cheaper. It has been estimated that it took about 1000 years for these molten pieces of planetary core to cool by just 1 degree celsius! The beautiful crystalline patterns characteristic of iron meteorites are more than just beautiful oddities-they tell us how long it took for the planetary core from which the meteorite is derived to cool!Ĭaveat Emptor : As the price of Gibeon has gone up over the past few years, there appears to be a disconcerting trend of some individuals offering the Rust-Prone 'Muonionalusta' meteorites as stable "Gibeon" meteorites. These patterns are formed of interwoven bands of kamacite and taenite, and can only form over literally millions of years of cooling. The crystalline patterns within Meteorites are known as "Widmanstatten" patterns after the Austrian Count Alois von Widmanstatten who first discovered these patterns in 1808. Iron meteorites are composed primarily of various alloys of iron and nickel, and are derived from planetary cores that were broken apart billions of years ago by catastrophic impact events. Irons" because of their incomparable stability, beauty and ease of working. Gibeon meteorites are known as the "King of the We also have slices of the Gibeon meteorite that have been treated to display the Widmanstätten pattern.Welcome to our Etched Gibeon meteorite page. The pieces we offer are exactly as they were found and haven't been treated in any way the rust is normal weathering. Thanks to the interest of the local residents - not to mention the huge size of the Gibeon strewn field - Gibeon meteorite fragments are fairly abundant, and thus quite affordable. When the kids' families saw how easy it was to make money, everyone got into the act! This was thanks to an enterprising meteorite collector named Robert Haag, who marched into the principal's office of a Namibian school and offered to pay kids to bring him meteorites. While the locals had always collected pieces of the meteorite - to use for making tools - it was only relatively recently that they became available to the North American market. The strewn field it fell in is among the largest on earth, 70 miles wide by 230 miles long, and is located in the African country of Namibia. Although no one knows for sure when the Gibeon Meteorite fell to earth, everyone agrees it was in prehistoric times some speculate it was about 12,000 years ago. ![]()
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