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Nantan, coarse
octahedrite
Nantan, China, is a coarse
octahedrite. It is not known when this iron meteorite fell in Guangxi Province,
China. The local inhabitants, however, were aware of these strange metal
"rocks" for several centuries. Nantan fell a very long time ago as evidenced by
the metamorphic transition of the iron into the mineral hematite, the chief ore
of iron.
What looks like a dark lines
through the lamellae of the pictured specimen is the area that has changed to
hematite.
NEMS has Nantan available in
several forms including micro and macro size.
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