[meteorite-list] cleaning Millbillillie ?

[mckinney trammell]

would oxaclic acid work like is does when removing red clay stains form quartz crystals?


--- On Sun, 11/2/08, tett <tett at rogers.com> wrote:


> From: tett <tett at rogers.com>

> Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] cleaning Millbillillie ?

> To: "Alexander Seidel" <gsac at gmx.net>, meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com, bobl at peaktopeak.com

> Date: Sunday, November 2, 2008, 5:10 PM

> I now have a much deeper appreciation for Millbillillie.

> 

> I will not attempt cleaning and will reflect on the

> "subtle" beauty these 

> meteorites have.

> 

> Many Thanks!

> 

> Mike

> 

> 

> ----- Original Message ----- 

> From: "Alexander Seidel" <gsac at gmx.net>

> To: "tett" <tett at rogers.com>;

> <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>; 

> <bobl at peaktopeak.com>

> Sent: Sunday, November 02, 2008 11:24 AM

> Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] cleaning Millbillillie ?

> 

> 

> >> I agree that there is a special characteristic

> that would be lost if the

> >> red staining were to be removed from a

> Millbillillie individual. 

> >> However,

> >> it is also great to have meteorites pristine with

> no terrestrial 

> >> alteration.

> >> The priciest Millbillillies are those that with

> dark black glassy crusts.

> >

> > No, a meteorite like Millbillillie should be looked at

> in a much more 

> > subtle way!

> >

> > It fell in 1960, and was collected no earlier than 10

> years later! Talking 

> > about

> > Millbillillie is exciting in many respects, as it e.

> g. displays different 

> > textures on

> > cut slices, but talking about exterior surface, I

> would always prefer a 

> > piece with

> > natural (laterite) patina over a piece which was

> somehow "cleaned" (..if 

> > this were

> > possible..) or has only got some more or less glossy

> black crust alone 

> > rather than

> > the brownish-reddish surface stains that are so very

> *typical* for this 

> > meteorite,

> > and are part of its "character", so to

> say...!

> >

> > You are right insofar as, when we are talking about

> may be fresh Eucrites 

> > or fresh

> > Howardites, we are looking and longing for fresh

> glossy black crust in the 

> > first place,

> > as will be the case with e. g. the early collected

> pieces of a historical 

> > fall like Stannern,

> > or some rare other finds and falls, but things are a

> quite a bit different 

> > with a fall like

> > Millbillillie, even if it occured as late as 1960,

> considered a "fresh" 

> > fall....

> >

> > Well, nothing but my two (Euro-)Cents,

> > Alex

> > Berlin/Germany

> >

> >

> > 

> 

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