Refining iridium Ore

[levs]

The meteorites can be very very small however and do not have much of a visible presence.

 

[levs]

Some more photos... Please note any specimens that I intend to either trade or smelt are not of this size. The meteorites I would consider to be refine worthy are about 1mm or smaller in size.

I discovered a gravel heap and it turned out to all be meteorites

 

[Yggdrasil]

Some more photos... Please note any specimens that I intend to either trade or smelt are not of this size. The meteorites I would consider to be refine worthy are about 1mm or smaller in size.

I discovered a gravel heap and it turned out to all be meteorites

Have you had it tested?
If not it is only rocks.

 

[levs]

They are meteorites... I smelted 10kg of them and a silver button formed at the bottom after the iron seemed to start to boil over. About to get the button XRF scanned.

 

[levs]

heres some microscope photos of the pebbles

 

[levs]

Heres the video from the XRF scan of a sample. Instead of trying to be an ore vendor, we'd be better off being an iridium vendor, no?
Iron pebbles would not have reached the curie point had it not entered through the atmosphere. The polymorphism of the various samples also indicative that they are of celestial origin. I consider it to be the prima Materia of the universe.

boiling them for 10 hours results in the iron boiling over and a silvery button plopping out of the bottom center of the curcible. Does none of these notes ring any bells?

 

[levs]

Smelter results

 

[levs]

Look here at this stone artifact... Notice the pebbles lodged into the top?

 

[stella polaris]

In what area of the world does it come from?

 

[stella polaris]

I never seen such crystal structure, on iron meteorite, as you have in your first picture. I also never heard that a meteorite manage to hit the earth as a pile of gravel.

Here is my guess. Look at the first picture. See the cubic crystals? Did it smell sulfur then you smelted the material? If so it can be iron pyrite. Perhaps your pile of gravel is a pile of dumped material containing Iron, iron pyrite and arsenik. Thats my guess.

 

[stella polaris]

Crush one and show a picture of a fresh fractured surface,

 

[levs]

Stella this is called polymorphism and it is somewhat random.

 

[Yggdrasil]

Stella this is called polymorphism and it is somewhat random.

Testing is whats needed, I have not seen anything hinting of non terrestrial origin.
So again, tests or its just rocks.

 

[stella polaris]

split one in two and take a photo of the fresh surface. It tells more than an oxidised surface.

You tested the metal you got from smelting right? And got the figures you mentioned. Now I see iron pyrite structure in the first picture. Arsen often go hand in hand with this. If you smelt that you get Iron with some arsenik. If a scrap dealer test that, without proper program, you will get exactly the test results you got. A fresh surface will tell us if this is the case..

 

[stella polaris]

Iron pyrite = fools gold
Arsenic = fools iridium
They often walk hand in hand

Arsenic did not fool anyone in old days. Well murder victims can be said to been fooled. (wash your hands)
But today Arsenic can be called fools Iridium due to the belief in technology.

I do not trust tech. I have been driving a boat 800 m (1/2 mile) up on land. That was what the GPS said. If I trusted the GPS I would have run on ground. Now a XRF is programmed for different task. The machine you did your test on is made and programmed for general karat testing of gold. Its simply not made for the kind of test you made. You can probably buy an expensive program for that type of testing but I do not think that is the case. They probably went with the standard program for gold dealers. Ask the manufacture about the thing.

You are not the first nor the last to fall in this trap. The expensive testing tool give a result you accept. We have a tendency to behave like this. Call closest university and tell them you found a gravel pile of meterioites. They probably will hang up. We do not reflect on that. We believe more in the scrap dealers tech than in the professor.

If this pile laying in the old world it can be a more than a 1000 year old dump. In fact it could be an archeological site. Iron pyrite gets rusty by the time in some cases. Thats what I think you have . Rusty pieces of Iron pyrite. In the mineral was also some arsenic.

 

[levs]

Iron pyrite = fools gold
Arsenic = fools iridium
They often walk hand in hand

Arsenic did not fool anyone in old days. Well murder victims can be said to been fooled. (wash your hands)
But today Arsenic can be called fools Iridium due to the belief in technology.

I do not trust tech. I have been driving a boat 800 m (1/2 mile) up on land. That was what the GPS said. If I trusted the GPS I would have run on ground. Now a XRF is programmed for different task. The machine you did your test on is made and programmed for general karat testing of gold. Its simply not made for the kind of test you made. You can probably buy an expensive program for that type of testing but I do not think that is the case. They probably went with the standard program for gold dealers. Ask the manufacture about the thing.

You are not the first nor the last to fall in this trap. The expensive testing tool give a result you accept. We have a tendency to behave like this. Call closest university and tell them you found a gravel pile of meterioites. They probably will hang up. We do not reflect on that. We believe more in the scrap dealers tech than in the professor.

If this pile laying in the old world it can be a more than a 1000 year old dump. In fact it could be an archeological site. Iron pyrite gets rusty by the time in some cases. Thats what I think you have . Rusty pieces of Iron pyrite. In the mineral was also some arsenic.

I agree that samples need to be analyzed from various parties and that's why I was offering samples of 100 grams to anyone who would be interested.

Arsenic melts at 816 degrees celcius and likely would vaporize well before the iron boils.

 

[levs]

Stella heres some more microscopes of the crystalline shaping.

 

[stella polaris]

It not ment to be offensive. Its not ment to be right nor wrong. You say meteorite. I say iron pyrite. The answer lay within the material. Post a fresh surface photo and we get the fact. Simple as that. If I see I am wrong I promise you that I will back down in this thread. Take the one in first picture and split it. Then compare the fresh surface with Iron pyrite and its cubic structure..

 

[stella polaris]

Nice pictures.

Please take a look on how arsenopyrite looks like. Think that is what you have there.

It can have hexagon structure.

 

[stella polaris]

Actually I might be wrong and you have a pile of arsenopyrite. I only see cubic structure on first picture. Here in the last pictures is hexagon structure. Until you have tested the material, properly, I strongly recommend you to be very careful with the material. Wash your hands and do not smelt more.