Hexahedrite - Bilibino, Russia 

Find 1981 in Russia in the Magadan region
TkW appr. 1000kg
Mineralogy: 5.3% Ni, 56 ppm Ga, 0.15 ppm Ir, N.I.Zaslavskaja et al., Meteoritika,

Traces of Palladium, platinum and ruthenium discovered by Hoashi M., Reeves R. D., Brooks R. R. (1993)

1984, 43, p.30. Classification and analysis, not an octahedrite, as listed in Graham et al., Cat. Met., 1985, p.71, but a reheated and recrystallized hexahedrite of group IIAB, J.T.Wasson et al., GCA, 1998, 62, p.715.

950kg: Magadan, North-East Complex Res. Inst. [main mass]
21.1kg: Moscow, Acad. Sci.
213g: London, Nat. Hist. Mus.

 

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