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Here we have for you a nice looking individual fragment of a Sahara Desert NWA unclassified meteorite weighing 87 grams. Its dimensions are 47x45x28 mm. This never classified North West Africa stone was found in the Sahara desert around 2000.

It's a good quality individual fragment NWA meteorite specimen. Some weathering shows the meteorite's time spent aging in the desert. Would be a beautiful addition to any new or existing collection. Comes with a Canagem Collection specimen card.

This is a superb looking slice of a Sahara Desert NWA unclassified meteorite weighing 9.0 grams. Its dimensions are 31x23x5 mm.  This never classified North West Africa stone was found in the Sahara desert in 2004.

It's a very good quality cut NWA meteorite specimens showing excellent internal structure (L5?) and are very attractive with light grey mottled interior with chondrules and metallic flakes. Low weathering grade. Display nicely.

Would be a beautiful addition to any new or existing collection. Comes with a Canagem Collection specimen card.

Here we have for you a nice looking end cut of a Sahara Desert NWA unclassified meteorite weighing 95 grams. Its dimensions are 59x41x29mm. This never classified North West Africa stone was found in the Sahara desert around 2000.

It's a good quality cut NWA meteorite specimens showing interesting internal structure (L5?) and somewhat attractive with a mottled interior with chondrules and metallic flakes. Some weathering shows the meteorite's time spent aging in the desert. Displays nicely with a ground and rough polished without a mirror finish.

Would be a beautiful addition to any new or existing collection. Comes with a Canagem Collection specimen card.

Here we have for you a very interesting looking tumbled individual of a Sahara Desert NWA unclassified meteorite weighing 97.4 grams. Its dimensions are 47x43x33mm.  This never classified North West Africa stone was found in the Sahara desert around 2000.

It's a good quality individual NWA meteorite specimen. Would be a beautiful addition to any new or existing collection. Comes with a Canagem Collection specimen card.

This is an aluminum label with all the information regarding any Northwest Africa or NWA meteorite. This flat model fits nicely in a Riker type box or our own Alder wooden boxes. An excellent way of identifying and displaying your collection of meteorites.

This is a superb looking slice of a Sahara Desert NWA 091 classified meteorite weighing 11.53 grams. Its dimensions are 33x26x4mm. 

It is a nice dark gray color and is full of small holes (the small black specks in the pictures). It is very similar to Kimble County except a bit darker. The single piece was found in the desert in 2000 and has a total mass of only 370 grams and was classified as an L6 by UCLA. It is shock level 4 (very high) and weathering grade W2 (Low). It is highly vesiculated from a shock event.

This piece displays extremely well with its professionally finished cut face and is also a very nice size. Would be a beautiful addition to any new or existing collection. Comes with a Canagem Collection specimen card.

This is a superb looking slice of a Sahara Desert NWA 091 classified meteorite weighing 17.96 grams. Its dimensions are 40x39x5mm. 

It is a nice dark gray color and is full of small holes (the small black specks in the pictures). It is very similar to Kimble County except a bit darker. The single piece was found in the desert in 2000 and has a total mass of only 370 grams and was classified as an L6 by UCLA. It is shock level 4 (very high) and weathering grade W2 (Low). It is highly vesiculated from a shock event.

This piece displays extremely well with its professionally finished cut face and is also a very nice size. Would be a beautiful addition to any new or existing collection. Comes with a Michael Cottingham Meteorite Collection and a Canagem Collection specimen card.

This is a great looking NWA 1108 L6 Chondrite classified meteorite slice weighing 47.16 grams. Its dimensions are 50x31x21 mm. This L6 (S3/W2) chondrite classified meteorite was found in the Sahara Desert in 2003. 

The petrography shows some metal and sulfide grains are elongated, metal and sulfide veins are also present. Chondrules are poorly defined and very recrystallized. Some plagioclase grains are 50 μm in size. A few olivine grains contain planar fractures.

The official total weight of the 25 pieces recovered is recorded as 2.8 KG.  This beautiful meteorite comes from the Michael Cottingham Meteorite Collection.

Would be a beautiful addition to any new or existing collection. Comes with a Canagem Collection and a Michael Cottingham Collection specimen cards.

This is a superb looking crusted fragment of an NWA 1777 classified meteorite weighing 1.45 grams.

This meteorite was found in Sobti, Algeria in 2002.  It has a low total mass of 1055 grams and is classified as a Eucrite-pmict. It has a shock level 3 and a weathering grade W1. 

This piece displays extremely well and would be a beautiful addition to any new or existing collection. Comes in a membrane protective case with a Meteoritica and a Canagem Collection specimen card.

This is a superb looking Stony-iron or Mesosiderite class C classified meteorite named Northwest Africa NWA 1879 .  This specimen is a part slice weighing 4.16 grams with dimensions of 22x17x4 mm.

This is a quote from Mr Hupé : "This is the NWA 1879, a rare C type Mesosiderite found in 2003 in Northwest Africa. This stony-iron type meteorite is beautiful because it is very fresh, has crystal clusters scattered throughout its matrix and has a great deal of elemental metal. NWA 1879 weighed 1,624 grams before preparation. About 31% was lost during cutting and polishing. There are several pairings to this meteorite in existence so the Total Known Weight (TKW) is unknown.

No expense was spared in the preparation of this meteorite. It was cut using a diamond blade in oil so that the silicates would not be plucked. When cutting this way the blade had to be redressed constantly to prevent the iron from loading up the cutting medium. It was coarse polished using a diamond lap, which needed the same treatment as the blade. It was then soaked in pure ethyl alcohol for days to extract the oil introduced during the cutting and polishing phases. A final dry polish was applied by hand, a very time consuming process. The final step was to clean it again with pure ethyl alcohol and dry it under a heat lamp providing great looking and stable specimens. This specimen comes with an identification card from The Hupé Collection."

This part slice displays extremely well and would be a beautiful addition to any new or existing collection. Comes protected in a gem jar with both a Canagem Collection and a The Hupé Collection specimen card.

This is a superb looking part slice of Sahara Desert NWA 2224 meteorite.  Although still considered unclassified, this meteorite was given the provisional class of CV3 for Carbonaceous. 

This is a great specimen with many multicolored chondrules and CAIs.  It's a Dean Bessey meteorite but unfortunately many of his finds were never fully submitted for analysis.  It is a shame for this particular specimen, as it is just spectacular.

This piece displays extremely well with its professionally finished cut face and comes protected in a gem jar. Would be a beautiful addition to any new or existing collection. Comes with a Canagem Collection specimen card.

This is a grouping of NWA 2224 meteorite micros.  Although still considered unclassified, this meteorite was given the provisional class of CV3 for Carbonaceous. 

These micro pieces come with a small glass jar for display and protection. Would be a beautiful addition to any new or existing collection. Comes with a Canagem Collection specimen card.

This is a great looking Northwest Africa 2516 basaltic eucrite classified meteorite part slice weighing 5.52 grams. Its dimensions are 22x15x9 mm. 

This basaltic achondrite eucrite classified meteorite was found in the Sahara Desert in 2004 and is 1 of 641 approved meteorites classified as such. The total weight of the recovered pieces is recorded as a low 296 grams.

This piece displays extremely well, it is a nice size with a beautiful crusted exterior, and shows multiple characteristics of the type of material, it exhibits excellent clasts within the matrix. The matrix is a fine grain containing shocked eucritic inclusions. Beautiful grey matrix with nice clear inclusions.   The three groups collectively known as HED meteorites (howardites, eucrites and diogenites) may come from asteroid 4 Vesta.

The specimen comes with a Meteoritica and a Canagem specimen card. Would be a beautiful addition to any new or existing collection.

This is a great looking Northwest Africa 2521 H/L3.7 classified meteorite end cut.  It weighs 2.472 grams and measures 14x13x7 mm. This meteorite was found in the Sahara Desert in 2004 and has a total recovered weight recorded as a very low 47.8 grams.  It has a Shock stage of 3/4 and a Weathering grade of 2.  A very good cut, ground and polished end cut. 

This is the only approved meteorite classified as H/L3.7

The specimen comes with a Meteoritica and a   Canagem Collection specimen card. Would be a beautiful addition to any new or existing collection.

This is a superb looking part slice of Sahara Desert NWA 2663 meteorite.  It weighs 3.24 grams and measures 29x21x2 mm. Although still considered unclassified, this meteorite was given the provisional class of CO3.1. 

This is a great specimen with many multicolored chondrules and CAIs.  It's a Ted Bunch meteorite but unfortunately this find was never fully submitted for analysis.  It is a shame for this particular specimen, as it is just special.

This piece displays extremely well with its professionally finished cut face. Would be a beautiful addition to any new or existing collection. Comes with a Canagem Collection specimen card.

The NWA 267 meteorite fragment offered here is in as found condition.  It weighs 10.8 grams, with dimensions of 31x22x16 mm.  The meteorite will come with two specimen description cards including a signed "The Mark Bostick Collection" card.

This meteorite was once a pile of weathered unclassified meteorite fragments brought to the 2000 Denver show by a Moroccan fossil dealer. These fragments, 73.9 kg. worth, where purchased by Canadian meteorite dealer Dean Bessey, who was told the following on the meteorites: "A nomad found an area with a lot of unusual strange stones near the Morocco/Algeria border. He brought one to a fossil dealer and asked: "I hear that you will pay money for stones like this". After shaking his head in disbelief at a positive response, the nomad gathered up all his camels, wives and children and brought them into the desert to search over his personal strewn field." Or at least that is how the story goes.

Many thousands of stones, 73.9 kilograms, were recovered, most of these fragments under 20 grams. Then 356 grams and a thin section of the meteorite was donated to the Vernadaky Institute of Geochemistry and Analytical Chemistry, part of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, where it was classified by M. Ivanova. This meteorite, an ordinary stone chondrite, H4 class has a Shock Rating of 2 and a Weathering Grade of 2-3 and the classification information was published in Meteoritical Bulletin 85.

While the stone did not get a heavy weathering grade, very few specimens show any crust. This meteorite is believed to have come from the Hebe class asteroids. I've included an informational photo of a NWA 267 Meteorite thin section which are used in earth geology, and in meteorites to identify the minerals in them. The photo shows a large imperfect elongated chondrule. Chondrules are unique features to meteorites. The chondrule shown is composed of mostly pyroxene and the bright colored minerals scattered throughout the thin section is mostly olivine.

One of the fun facts is that the NWA 267 was also the first meteorite ever minted onto a real legal tender coin. The National Bank of Liberia made 999 of these $10.00 Silver coins in 2004. The meteorite used in the coin, was supplied by Mark Bostick himself and his name and signature came on the certificate with the coin. The provided images of the coin shows a nomad on a camel on the obverse. A meteorite is falling through the star filled sky in the background. Reverse of coin has a seal of the Liberia Government and notes its value. We include 2 specimen cards but unfortunately the thin section and coin used in the ad are NOT included!