A GOLDEN METEORITE.
The Yuma (Cal) Sentinel describes as a " meteorite " a specimen lately picked, up in the Mohave desert and brought to Fort Yuma. According to the Sentinel, " it weighs about a pound, and free gold, of which nearly a dollar appears on the surface. It is not magnetic, and has successfully resisted simple and compound baths of acid. In this respect it resembles specular iron, but in no other. One of its surfaces shows a fracture that reveals a crystaline structure, the color of which is a steel gray tinged nith yellow. It has defied the best cold chisels in the blacksmith shop, and has not broken or chipped under heavy blows. If its composition can bo imitated it will produce the hardest and toughest alloy known."
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Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3293, 11 July 1879, Page 2
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129A GOLDEN METEORITE. Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3293, 11 July 1879, Page 2
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