Polished terrestrial Native Iron slab (rare) Wendland Coll.

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Native iron is more commonly and easily found in meteorites than on the earth's surface! This is an excellent and pretty example from a rare locality. A polished end slice of basalt, hosts numerous sparkling grains of elemental iron. This rich, rare and excellent specimen is from an abandoned basalt quarry. SELDOM on the market. Ex Wendland Collection. According to MINDAT it is an "Abandoned basalt quarry on a contact to tertiary lignites.and iron is rare in igneous rocks." In fact, native iron is more commonly and easily found in meteorites than on the earths surface! This is a polished slice of native rock, hosting elemental iron. The consignor passes on the following concerning the native iron from Buhl: I found something unusual concerning the native iron from Buhl reported in A Method for Isolating Native Iron from Basalt without Destroying its Form. MAX SEEBACH (Centv. Min.,1 910,641-643) which says native iron occurs in the basalt of Buhl, near Weimar, in the form of a fine network. The basalt may be removed without destroying the form of the iron by heating with Plattner flux in a graphite crucible.A piece of basalt 1 C.C. in size is destroyed in one and a-half hours. The last traces of rock enclosed in the meshes of the iron are removed by fusion with boron trioxide