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The meteoric iron of Karee Kloof, and the meteoric stones of Leeuwfontein and Sinai Peninsula

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2018

G. T. Prior
G. T. Prior*
Affiliation:
Mineral Department of the British Museum
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Through the kindness of Mr. F. W. FitzSimons, Director of the Port Elizabeth Museum, South Africa, pieces of this iron were placed at the disposal of the writer for examination and analysis. The original mass, weighing about 203 lb. (92 kg.), was found at Karee Kloof, about nine miles from Hofmeyer, Cape Province, South Africa, and was presented to the Port Elizabeth Musem by Mr. N. H. Ogilvie in 1914. From a cast which was made under the direction of Miss M. Wilman, Director of the McGregor Memorial Musemn, Kimberley, the dimensions of the mass are approximately 43 × 30 × 20 cm. It is very irregularly shaped, is pitted with ‘thumb-marks’, and is cavernous with depressions, one of which on the side shown in Pl. III, fig. 1, has dimensions of about 20 × 15 × 7½ cm.

Type
Research Article
Information
Mineralogical magazine and journal of the Mineralogical Society , Volume 20 , Issue 103 , December 1923 , pp. 134 - 139
Copyright
Copyright © The Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland 1923

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References

Page 134 note 1 Director's Report for 1914, Port Elizabeth Museum, 1915, p. 4, fig.

Page 135 note 1 Johnston, R. A. A. and II. Ellsworth, V., Trans. R. Soc. Canada, 1921, ser. 3, vol. 15, sect. 4, pp. 69–92 Google Scholar, 14 pls., 3 text-figs. [Min. Abstr., vol. 1, p. 406.]

Page 137 note 1 Min. Mag., 1919, vol. 18, p. 349.

Page 137 note 2 Wilde, H., Mem. Manchester Lit. Phil. Soc., 1917, vol. 61, no. 4, pp. 1–2 Google Scholar. [Min. Abstr., vol. 1, p. 405.]