Gold Basin Specimen

GB20P

Polished Individual

Many specimens from this location are bonded with the soil, a white caliche. This specimens is totally polished to show the whole meteorite before striking the earth. The Gold Basin meteorites are an ancient fall yet the bright iron flakes shine in the sun like stars in H5 chondritic matrix. Package in a riker-mount style box.

35 x 33 x 10 mm

20 g complete individual

PPG: $3.00

$60.00

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Gold Basin

Location:
  • USA
    • Arizona
Found: 1983
Group:
  • Stone
Type:
  • Ordinary Chondrite
Class:
  • H6
Total known weight: Unknown

Gold Basin strewn-field was discovered by Jim Kreigh while prospecting for gold in the early 80's. Since then thousand of specimens have been found in the area. There age on earth more than 12,000 years.