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Murnpeowie (South Australia), a granular type of meteoric iron

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2018

L. J. Spencer
L. J. Spencer*
Affiliation:
British Museum of Natural History
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Apreliminary account of this fine mass, weighing 2520 lb., of meteoric iron was given in 1910 by L. Laybourne Smith, who at that time was Registrar of the South Australian School of Mines and Industries in Adelaide; but the promised detailed description with chemical analysis never appeared. Except for a small piece cut off one corner (upper left-hand corner in fig. 1) the mass is preserved intact in the Museum of that Institution, and none of the material appears to have been distributed to other museums. Casts of the mass were, however, made for the South Australian Museum in Adelaide, and one of them was presented to the British Museum in 1917 (B.M. 1917,360), where in the meteorite collection it is a very striking object (fig. 1).

Recently, at the suggestion of Mr. R. Bedford of the Kyancutta Museum, the Council of the South Australian School of Mines has generously presented to the British Museum a piece of this meteoric iron, together with the milling cuttings, with the request that the description of it should be completed.

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Research Article
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Mineralogical magazine and journal of the Mineralogical Society , Volume 24 , Issue 148 , March 1935 , pp. 13 - 20
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Copyright © The Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland 1935

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Page 13 Note 1 Smith, L. L., An Australian meteorite. Amer. Journ. Sci., 1910, ser. 4, vol. 30, pp. 264-266,CrossRefGoogle Scholar 2 figs.

Page 14 Note 1 On the sketch-map (Min. Mag., 1932, vol. 23, p. 41) showing the distribution of South Australian meteorites this was plotted incorrectly. The spot is about 30 miles S. by W. of Carraweena. Accalana, which could not then be located, lies between the two, about 5 miles S. by W. of Carraweena. No particulars have yet been published about the Accalana and Carraweena meteorites. Casts of them were presented to the British Museum at the same time as the cast of Murnpeowie. That of Accalana (B.M. 1917,365) measures 13x 12x 10cm., and that of Carraweena (B.M. 1917,366) 34 x 24 x 17 cm.

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