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Sold! More available! Here is a cool Meteorite cube from China. What’s cool about these is the fact that they have trace amounts of gold inside of them. This would be microscopic gold, but still very cool to see Gold formed outside of earth inside of a meteorite! We always hear about them thinking about ways to mine these meteorites for the precious metals, elements, and minerals that meteorites have. Here is a little more info my friend wrote. Aletai meteorites are one of the rarest, smallest subgroups of meteorites, being in the IIIE category. It is an iron meteorite, but it also contains Iridium and even trace amounts of gold! One of only SIXTEEN impacts that are in the IIIE category! Aletai Meteorites contain the highest percentage of gold within IIIE. It’s levels of Irridium are also extremely high compared to anything found on earth. In fact, it was this high Iridium level that helped us piece together the story of the dinosaurs – or shall I say the ending! This meteorite impact altered the earth’s surface around the entire world, giving us a distinguishable layer called the Cretaceous- Paleogene boundary. This boundary is also the layer of time when Dinosaurs went extinct, leading scientists to believe that this impact is one of the impacts that lead to the extinction of the Dinosaurs. $125 for the Smaller/Medium size and $165 for a slightly larger size! Available on @over_100_dollar_gems

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