NEWS PAGE
7 Jan 09
I've done a revamp of some of the webpages as promised with a theme of "there's metal in them thar chondrites"
See Weona, Winton 1 and Winton 2 webpages... and I replaced one of the Tenham pictures that I always hated. I have to centralise the QMIG collection before I do some other updates
I'm damn close to having all of the Queensland critters... except for those either confirmed lost, missing or illegally exported...
I hope to accession Wynella early this year and although Blaine Reed illegally exported Whitula Creek - I still have hopes that a specimen will magically appear - please email me if you can assist with a specimen
And if Russ Kempton ever sends the Maroo and Mungindi I paid for two years ago I will be in hog heaven (although I may accession Mungindi from another source)
Thats about all folks - I may accession some new specimens next week and I would appreciate if any readers could email me with a dummies guide to cutting iron meteorites
And there's still work to do a la the few remaining polished thin-sections I need...
Contrary to all rumours myself and this website are alive and well and steady (but slow) progress is being made
I get email from some of you from time to time and seek any information or pictures that you consider should be included in the pocket-guide. I am still seeking specimens of Maroo and Whitula Creek and Wynella and seek information where I can purchase same though I have fond hopes I will have them all (with the exception of Answer and King Solomon and Rockhampton) early next year...
As previously - my sincere thanks to all those behind the scenes who have helped - you know who you are - none of this happens without an enormous amount of time and effort behind the scenes
5 Jan 09
I've uploaded a photograph of the QMIG collection Arrabury 4.41 gram part-slice - I'll upload a picture of another crusted 5.06 gram Arrabury specimen from the QMIG collection soon
I'm planning a revamp of many of the photographs as and when I get time... I have to centralise the QMIG collection and obtain new pictures from various museums
My trip to the Tenham strewnfield has been postponed pro tem and I will see what other opportunities I have this year
This year should see more new accessions though I still have to finalise the interlocutory work for this
12 Dec 08
The received wisdom is that the new find below is a Tenham altho methinx there is just a tad too much metal therein
UQ will arrange for any further investigation/s deemed necessary just in case it is indeed a new find but for the moment it will lurk on my Tenham shelf
I hope to visit in and near the Tenham strewnfield around Christmas and am praying to my God that more specimens will reveal themselves
To any and all visitors I would wish you the compliments of the season and may all good things happen to you and yours
11 Dec 08
Back home again...
Still nuthin much to report
I saw a un-named new Queensland iron meteorite at the Cosmos Centre in Charleville last week
We took some pictures that turned out to be very poor quality and I have emailed the Cosmos Centre to seek some better pictures for a new page on this Barcoo River find...
Prof has finally cut the 48 g chondrite mentioned below - I'm uncertain if it is a Tenham or not ??? so this will be yet another one for EMP and Raman Laser given the shock veins...
Your views on if it is or aint a Tenham would be appreciated
Yep - link for the photo of the cut face of the new find is above...
17 Nov 08
Nuthin much happening of late...
Many, many projects underway slowly creeping closer to nomenclature of my new finds - sincere thanx to JCU and UQ...
I know I have to get busy uploading photos of new specimens and new polished thin-sections but this is gonna haveta wait until the end of the year when I am on leave and have some time and space to do this...
I think I have a new find from smack bang in the middle of the Tenham strewnfield... a 48 gram chondrite lurking on a sandhill - the strewnfield has nearly been picked clean and anything on a sandhill is likely a new find... it does not have a classical Tenham shape and tis more weathered and rusty than the usual Tenham nuggets one may find
UQ will attack the stone with a buehler saw tomorrow and I hope to upload some pix tomorrow
Thats about it - I'm a bit unsettled today... Robert H**G pillaged and looted many Queensland chondrites - some of which he has sold to dealers like Jason P******s of R***s F**m H****N to name but one sad saga... and what happens... I**A seems to believe that the solution is for Jason P******s to sell the stolen stone back to the owner - unbelievable in terms of morals, ethics and professional responsibility - just wait - this is likely to happen to you too and don't think that any professional association will help you either
2 Sep 08
Same dog... different leg action... QMIG back online with a new internet provider - thank you sincerely to Leon at http://www.ezadsl.com.au/ for making the webspace available
Let me know if you find any broken links and I will try to restore them... I have to hunt for my backup copies of a few articles and pictures and I am uploading some as I type
Most of my new finds have been tested by UQ with a few to go...- hopefully some metsoc submissions by the end of the year - thankyou sincerely Prof C
Winton 2 is not one of my personal finds but I do have some specimens - this one is extraordinary and will tip science on its ear once the investigations are published - I'm sworn to secrecy so cannot say much but it may prove to be the holy grail...
I'll see how motivated I feel and will try and webpublish some EMP results and polished thin-section pictures for the new finds but the Prof may veto this since nothing has been published yet... wait out
I'll also see if I can find the time to webpublish some pictures of my new acquisitions mentioned below...
This update is more to see if I can remember how to code html and ftp upload the edits...
11 May 08
I'm looong overdue for an update...
I've been far far away and have now settled back at work and am beginning to focus on meteorites again
I'll be honest enough to say I've done very little with meteorites since the last update although I did receive some gorgeous type-specimens of NARYILCO
As previously - many projects are proceeding slowly and whilst some are nearing completion, others need kick-starting or indeed are either stalled or longer term
I have an enormous batch of chondrites being tested - thankyou sincerely Prof C - I hope to upload the results shortly...
I have a batch of new polished thin-sections and part-slices and full-slices sitting on my bed as I type this update - the main capture of note is three part-slices of ARRABURY totalling approx 15 grams one of them being a small crusted end-cut - a part-slice and two frags of GLENORMISTON and a type-specimen sized part-slice of WEONA. The new polished thin-sections are awesome and I have to loan a couple of them to check if some of my new finds are paired or not ?
I'm slowly working towards getting all the Queenslanders... Rockhampton was long ago lost, Answer and King Solomon are MIA... the others I believe are all lurking and it is merely an administrative matter to chase them all down
As above - ARRABURY has finally arrived and now I can focus on the few others I am missing
If any listoids can assist with trading or selling a specimen of WHITULA CREEK and MAROO - please email me
I had some difficulties cutting a small slice of GLENORMISTON last week and seek advice on how to best cut irons - I can utilise the services of the Mechanical Engineering Workshop at the University but simply need (in-depth) advice on how best to go about this...
I had more luck snapping off a few small frags than cutting small part-slices but that is another story
I need to take photgraphs of the new captures and will upload pictures once I have finalised this
STOP PRESS
A belated happy first birthday to QMIG
Website launch 15 Jan 07 from the metlist archives...
A long difficult and ugly year wrestling with the classification of new Queensland finds and more of the same this year...
The year has had its high points and has also had its low points - nothing is easy in meteorite land
I had thought I'd snaffle all the Queenslanders last year - maybe just maybe this year
I have new Queensland finds strewn up and down the east coast of Australia being classified - this year should see the metsoc database of known Queensland chondrites being doubled through the efforts of QMIG... and no doubt more new finds this year...
23 Jan 08
Its always nice to look in your letterbox and find a Tenham individual is patiently waiting to meet its new owner
I've put some photos up 1 2 3 - a classic 220 g Tenham slab with a hint of thumbprinting
You may have read in the news about the floods in Queensland - the Tenham strewnfield is flooded pro tem and stones can only be collected with snorkelling gear for another week or so
The receding floods may indeed expose more stones in the claypans and surrounding areas particularly as the claypans shift and contract - wait and see...
I'll be away for a few months from the end of Jan 08
I'll clear email as and when I am able and although many projects have been commenced and will continue on automatic pilot - much will have to wait until I return in April 08...
I'm praying to my God for more new finds to arrive in April 08 and once I have settled back in I will let youse know what is happening
For those going to Tucson - enjoy - look out for and snaffle me some Arrabury, Maroo, Mungindi, Whitula Creek and Wynella - tho I have cunning plans in progress to hunt these down
16 Jan 08
I have uploaded the first batch of EMP results from JCU of the Tenham strewnfield seven. As prev the EMP machine went kaput after spitting out the numbers for three of them and I hope the remaining four will go thru in Feb 08
The name I must admit is a misnomer because only the two new Ingella stones are from the Tenham strewnfield - the other 5 stones cluster around the "true" location of the "known" Lake Machattie
You will no doubt notice that the EMP results for Ingella 2 are damn close to the published values for Hammond Downs and the "known" Ingella Station - in fact all of these finds plot quite closely on the map
Whoah - one step forward and two steps back - Ingella 2 now has to be thin-sectioned compared against Hammond Downs and a "known" Ingella Station to see if the petrology reveals if it is paired or not
I should have polished thin-sections of Hammond Downs and a "known" Ingella Station early next week - a sneak peak of an image of the "known" Ingella Station is here... any of youse experts want to take a gander and let me know if youse thinx it is paired to Ingella 2 or not ???
I've also uploaded the chemical analysis results of the Tenham strewnfield seven done by the University of Queensland if you are interested - just so you know I am not sure which Ingella result is which... the numbers may NOT match my specimen numbers - I hope to know exactly what is what soon from the chemical analysis results... any of youse experts want to take a gander at this and let me know if they be 3 different finds from this analysis or not ???
The Cowarie Waterhole EMP results are hmmm close to the published Lake Machattie numbers but Cowarie Waterhole is approx 100 km SW of the "true" location of the "known" Lake Machattie so I am awaiting advice as to whether yet more thin-section comparison has to be done against a "known" Lake Machattie or whether Cowarie Waterhole can be submitted to metsoc now for nomenclature
Thank god that the EMP results for Ethabuka are clear that it is an LL and I hope this one will go off to metsoc for nomenclature soon
A footnote - no thanks to Haag and Buehler for letting the wrong coords being published
Contrary to all rumours myself and this website are alive and well and steady (but slow) progress is being made
I get email from some of you from time to time and seek any information or pictures that you consider should be included in the pocket-guide. I am still seeking specimens of Arrabury and Maroo and Whitula Creek and Wynella and seek information where I can purchase same though I have fond hopes I will have them all (with the exception of Answer and King Solomon and Rockhampton) early next year...
As previously - my sincere thanks to all those behind the scenes who have helped - you know who you are - none of this happens without an enormous amount of time and effort behind the scenes
3 Jan 08
No new news per se - though I hope to have some exciting news mid to late Jan 08...
Can my website visitor from out Richmond way email me please - you pop up on my webcounter and I'd like to chat
24 Dec 07
Aaargh - I hate computers - I must admit to being a Luddite
I finally got the computer to boot after reseating the RAM and now I have to remember how to play OCR... funny how it seemed to be so easy very early in the year but now...
Should have it done by tea and the articles uploaded as pdf - I know - read the manual...
UPDATE - whew - they're uploaded and online... a tad rough and ready but they're there... I haven't really got the time and patience to put them through OCR at the moment - maybe another day... Articles can be accessed from the Articles webpage or from the main menu bar
The point I am perhaps trying to make with the articles is that there are usually far more articles than you think exist (well sometimes anyway) and reading the articles and references often gives you serendipitous information that is extremely useful...
I put up a new animated donations picture on the home page to remind everybody that donations are sought to help keep this website alive
This website only exists through the good graces of my and some colleague's pockets and resources. Whilst we will try to maintain the site - any donations will be returned in the sense that more information, photographs and specimens can be resourced and webpublished
It's not cheap to travel and I kid you not a lot of travelling is required to make this magically happen - at least 4000 km to drive in the next month or so and more likely 10000 km in the next 6 months...
23 Dec 07
Nearly Christmas (and my Birthday tomorrow) and nearly a year since I began the initial html coding for this website - 1428 visitors to this website as of today from the webcounter which if I recall correctly was a later addition and methinx has been reset once ?
Once again my sincere best wishes to the meteorite community and any other of my webpage visitors over the Christmas and New Year period. Thankyou for your support and I will continue to build on the resources available to you
I'll hook up the scanner this afternoon - I have some interesting articles on Gladstone, Glenormiston and Tenham to upload
Tis time to do a bit more research as to what other olde articles exist...
20 Dec 07
Rockhampton meteorite webpage uploaded
Maybe just maybe I'll scan some more articles this afternoon...
19 Dec 07
As prev... nothing much happening at the moment... I'm waiting on the outcomes of several projects in motion and hope to have exciting news early in the new year...
I'll use the time to scan some articles that I consider are useful and indeed perhaps hitherto unseen by all but a very very few... I just have to find the motivation to wrestle with the vagaries of the scanner and I have to double-check the coords which do not scan well into html
I am curious about a possible article on the Rockhampton meteorite... more tomorrow once I delve into the university library holdings...
Yep - I know - a website makeover is needed and that will be one of my priorities in the new year
I am in the throes of "coining" a limited edition Tenham medallion in much the same style as the several other meteorite medallions already available online - I have the artwork selected and merely have to work out how to best achieve the required number of fragments from a small individual without too much wastage. Any thoughts on how I can best go about this would be greatly appreciated. You may wish to contact me for pre-orders... If this is indeed successful it may spin-off further medallions...
2 Dec 07
Mirror website at http://www.qmig.net
Let me know if youse see any errors I need to edit... the webcounter points to http://www.qmig.org until I can get around to fixing this...
This will allow me to have a website 24/7 while I think seriously about changing internet providers
Youse knows the story - take ADSL codes off the telephone line - wait in the queue at the telephone exchange to get on the DSLAM for ADSL 2 + ... wait for new ADSL codes on telephone line
Its not easy and perhaps deliberately so... many people simply do not want or need the hassles of being offline (up to a month or more !!!) just to change providers
But - the big Telcos will NOT price-match and you can get significantly cheaper deals from other providers
I haven't quite figured it out but methinx the bigger providers must wholesale their spare capacity
TELSTRA - long gone !!!
OPTUS - nearly gone !!!
TPG - soon...
27 Nov 07
I aint gonna be doing too much for a little while so I would take the opportunity to wish the meteorite community and any other of my webpage visitors a very merry christmas and a happy new year
Next update is more likely going to be the mid Jan 08 where I hope to reap the results of some of the projects I have commenced lately
I have had the chance to reflect on what I want to be doing next year - a webpage revamp comes to mind immediately - and it has struck me just how difficult it has been this year and next year for that matter...
All of of us come to a stage where getting the last few that you want is damn near impossible - I haven't hit the wall yet and several machiavillian plots have been commenced to round up the missing creatures and I expect to have some exciting news as the new year progresses...
Classification and nomenclature of new chondrites is not easy - it does not happen quickly either and the difficulties of achieving funding for EMP is not an easy task - you have to take your bat and ball and knock on many doors until the solution presents itself - finding new meteorites is not easy either...
At present I am hopeful that I have achieved a longer term solution for EMP which may even result in my having some of the older finds seemingly classified by mark one eyeball petrology alone put through EMP
I hope to bring you more new finds in the new year but I have enough on my plate now that this is more likely to be the second quarter of the new year
Not withstanding the above, I have 18 new finds going through classification and EMP as you read this and many should be submitted for nomenclature by the end of this year...
Now - the exciting stuff - new pictures of the Glenormiston main mass are up for your viewing pleasure - and yes QMIG expects to accession slices of these next year - you can see the previous cut face in the last photograph...
More exciting stuff - new pictures of Gladstone 1 - apparently most was long ago sold by the Geological Survey of Queensland to the Field Museum in Chicago and only this small slice is available for photographs pro-tem - and yes I intend to lop off some for QMIG and I suspect I may be able to source more elsewhere...
But wait there's more - new pictures of Gladstone 2 - and yes I am plotting to get some slices of this too... and thats a damn big previously cut face to get a specimen from...
The Gladstone irons were intially thought to be one find and two main masses therefrom - it is now felt to be two separate finds though more investigation has to be carried out to formally confirm this
Last new picture is of Winton 1 and you guessed it I hope to have some of this soon as well...
Thats enough photographs for now - I am tending to put them up as a low-res now to conserve webspace but will consider sending you high-res photographs if you ask me...
Lots of projects on the boil right now...
As prev UQ will undertake the classification of the Windorah Quartet - rumour exists that one indeed may be an achondrite - wait and see - we all know how deceptive they can look - UQ will also do the science on the Winton Triad...
Lots of polished thin-sections being prepared for me
Lots of new accessions have been begun as separate projects and I hope to have these by mid Jan 08
Some more buying sprees are planned and more importantly I am looking forward to a break so I can make some headway on the pocket-guide on Queensland Meteorites - I hope to call it "Where the Sandhills meet the Claypans" A Meteoritical History of Queensland
More new finds are planned for next year God willing
And that's it - forgive me for a longer than usual news
17 November 07
Four new chondrites from Windorah are accessioned - Carranya, Galway Downs 1 & 2, Manella Outstation - near enough to 600 grams total for all four
Two came from different ends of Galway Downs Claypan - the gut feeling is of two new finds mirroring the Memie Sandhill specimens - UPDATE - photos of cut faces tend to confirm two separate and distinct finds
The Windorah Quartet are to be loaned to the University of Queensland who appear willing to undertake classification and a nomenclature submission
Photographs are now uploaded for your viewing pleasure
I'll take the risk of adding them to the Queensland Falls webpage and they are also linked from the New Finds webpage
My Lake Machattie 2 may indeed be a known Lake Machattie - more to follow in due course
28 Oct 07
My sources of supply have found four new chondrites in the Windorah area - guestimate 750 g total - one is approx 400 g - wait and see...
I have some other priorities at the moment but should snaffle these ? mid Nov 07
These are most definitely new finds - not what turns out to be carbon steel
by one of my more excitable colleagues - the spread
would infer four separate new finds
It has been shall we say a complicated year trying to get fourteen new finds thru nomenclature - I am going to have to reassess what classification options are available to QMIG
27 Oct 07
STOP PRESS !!!
New meteorite find in Bathurst - click here
18 Oct 07
A colleague was to give me some new finds from Winton but he has misplaced them and is searching for them... he will eventually find them and then I can post some pictures...
The search however turned up a handful of other small stones that may or may not be meteorites
Their history is uncertain but to the best of his knowledge they were found on Dagworth Station (near Winton) by his Grandmother prior to WW2
His Grandmother had an eye for and love of stones which my colleague has inherited and thus I hold some hopes that they might indeed be meteorites but we all know how deceptive these can be...
UPDATE - I have cut one specimen - it falls off the magnet and the jury is unimpressed with the polished and unpolished cut faces - not to worry - more interesting specimens for my meteorwrong collection...
I cannot report the news without mentioning the most extraordinary display of childish and petulant behaviour I have ever seen from the Gunner
Even metsoc has been difficult to deal with lately...
7 Oct 07
Next Sunday I should be the proud owner of half a dozen or so chondrites found on a property just south of Winton - the date of the find/s is uncertain but most likely to be prior to WW2
More details and pictures when I am able but they are all small individuals and it is unknown if they are paired
I am always very dubious and very sceptical until I can hold these in my hand and give them a mark one eyeball inspection but these have the all the portents of being a unique find
As if I didn't have enough to do it looks like I may have another batch of new Queensland finds in November (fingers crossed)
5 Oct 07
Update but perhaps more correctly a downdate...
3 of the Tenham strewnfield seven have undergone EMP at JCU - the rest will follow once the EMP machine has been repaired... damn vacuum pump
I swear my new chondrites are cursed
More details when I am able but progress is being made... I'll liaise with JCU to see what results can be released and have to consider whether to make a metsoc submission of 3 now or submit all at once later...
I plan to peer at the thin-section of the known Lake Machattie soon just so I can have a mark one eyeball comparison against my Lake Machattie 2
4 Oct 07
EMP of the Tenham strewnfield seven today at JCU
You like I will just have to wait for the results and because they are most likely proprietary to JCU I will have to seek permission to publish them
I consider that most of the Tenham strewnfield seven will be new finds and a metsoc nomenclature submission should shortly follow... I have sighted a draft submission that once again is proprietary and needs the EMP data before formal submission... I'll see if this can be released to the public domain too...
Fingers crossed re my Lake Machattie 2 - if it turns out to be a known Lake Machattie I will eat humble pie and edit the appropriate pages... The EMP fingerprint should tell us rather than be equivocal ? nevertheless tis prudent to sacrifice one of my small part-slices of a known Lake Machattie to the thin-section God and this should be ready today
A mark one eyeball inspection may be all that is needed but looks can be very deceptive - I still think my known part-slice has more metal flecking but once again looks can be very deceiving
There are rumblings that the EMP results of the Birdsville Seven are not far away either - fingers crossed but as above you and I will just have to wait
Thats the state of play today - many sub-projects in varying stages of completion with little to report except that you should keep your eye on the news
23 Sep 07
Thin-section pictures update to the Tenham and Thin Sections webpages - Winton 2 is showcased on the Thin Sections webpage
The proposed pocket-guide on Queensland meteorites is on hold pending accession of some of the remaining falls I am missing and having thin-sections of these and others made
9 Sep 07
An update !
Queensland Falls webpage updated with links to the 7 new finds from the Tenham strewnfield including pictures of the specimens and thin-sections
EMP for the 7 new finds from the Tenham strewnfield has been booked for Sep 07... I have sighted a draft nomenclature write-up but this is proprietary and confidential given that the EMP results may change what is felt to be a H to an L and vice versa etc. The chondrites and thin-sections are of course mine so I have little compunction in posting pictures of them
Lake Machattie 2 may indeed be a known Lake Machattie and I will deal with this once I know one way or the other
The only issue causing me some grief is lodgement of type-specimens and I hope to resolve this shortly...
EMP for the Birdsville seven has been done and I am anxiously awaiting results
Once again lodgement is hindering a nomcom submission and I hope to resolve this shortly
Thats really about all I have for now - current plans are to purchase some larger specimens and to have more thin-sections made and pictures thereof placed online - I also have to do some more research on Glenormiston and may have some more new finds in October
I do have some more thin-section pictures and I will see if I have the motivation to put some of these online
4 Jun 07
Two updates in two days !!! I'm feeling re-invigorated lately - a lot of energy and motivation is needed to steer the ship in extended cruise mode - none of this is easy or happens quickly - most of you will understand the difficulties and issues including sheer damn frustration - you sometimes wonder is it worth the effort but I will persevere until the pocket-guide comes into being and most likely to a second edition and no doubt further
I have committed the grievous sin of sacrificing part of my Glenormiston to science - First picture of cut and etched face received today - I still have to download this through my private email and edit the Glenormiston page
By the time you read this I will have ftp uploaded the new page and picture
For those of you that just have to know - it was cut on one "flat" face and the outer cut crumbled into little "sugar cubes" of metal and the "sugar lumps" are perfect for study - first brief inspection gives granular coarse octahedrite with minor cohenite - a closer inspection shows it might end up being an anomalous coarse octahedrite
Metsoc has Glenormiston as an iron-ungrouped but it will take a full write-up to change this - watch this space for EMP and most likely a gallium plot but I hope to have the Metsoc entry correctly described in short order
3 Jun 07
I am hmmm 3000 km south from home with another 11 weeks course-work before I return home
Lots of news
Thin section pictures will have to wait until I get back home - but see below re the Birdsville Seven
Thin sections of Tenham received
Two micros of Lake Machattie and another micro of Ellerslie received - I'm currently negotiating for a larger part-slice of Ellerslie
A small micro of Georgetown received - I still have to chase a larger specimen in due course
Micro of Hidden Valley received
JCU have begun a project to put the 7 new finds from the Tenham strewnfield through nomenclature - this will not happen overnight but I will make available new information and photographs when they become available
Seven new finds from Birdsville (Queensland) !!! currently on loan to Bathurst Observatory who have already made thin sections and sought provisional names - see update to New Finds page with photographs including first thin-section pictures
My specimen of Glenormiston has been cut and etched - awaiting formal lab results - photographs up when I am able - submission to be sent to metsoc seeking change to classification of iron-ungrouped
Lodgement of type-specimens should have the spin-off effect of trading for specimens I currently do not hold - more details when I am able
As above - I'm getting damn close to getting specimens of all the Queensland meteorites and the plan is to publish a pocket-guide at the end of the year with a focus on thin-section photographs - I don't plan anything extravagant for reasons of cost but the thin-section pictures should be extraordinary
The pocket-guide will of course never be completely up to date - I know of at least 6 and probably more unknown Queensland meteorites out there and more will be found in due course - the purpose of the pocket-guide is to formally record the history to date in the hope that this will not only flush out the remainder but lead to an increased awareness and interest in meteorites
I still need your help on a few - Whitula Creek still eludes me - Rockhampton was long ago lost - Answer and King Solomon have disappeared off the face of the earth - Surely somebody must be able to help me with Whitula Creek and someone must know the whereabouts of Answer and King Solomon
P.S. Whitula Bore on the New Finds page is a separate find from the known Whitula Creek
Thats the state of play pro tem - I'm very busy with study and clinical placement for the next 11 weeks before I drive back home - I'm still in the throes of this special endeavour to get everything done - some matters are deferred pro tem, several projects are happening separately on automatic pilot and further new accessions should be made in return for lodgement of type-specimens - I've probably forgotten something I should have included in the news but there is always next time
25 Apr 07
ANZAC Day - my personal best wishes to serving members of the Defence Forces and to those who have previously served
Specimens of Maroo and Mungindi will be on the way back home shortly...
24 Apr 07
Back online - previous home internet provider facing liquidation...
New specimens added to the QMIG collection - update to Queensland Falls page - new photographs up soon...
More new known finds should be accessioned soon...
There are at least another four unnamed Queensland finds out there that I am aware of that I hope to snaffle part-slices from...
Export approval has been granted for Naryilco and Ingella Station - wait out for more limited edition issues
Although not meteorite-related I MAY also get export approval for Ayers Rock part-slices and thin sections...
I am extraordinarily busy with my day-to-day employment and have to travel down south for a three month course soon - this means that updates will occur less frequently but it will give me the opportunity to visit the Bathurst Observatory and the Victorian Museum in order to accession new specimens and to further my plans for a book on Queensland meteorites
I hope to acquire all the known Queensland falls by the end of this year... Rockhampton was long ago lost... Answer and King Solomon have disappeared off the face of the earth... I do need your help to obtain a part-slice of Whitula Creek and any information on the whereabouts of Answer and King Solomon - the rest are I believe well able to be accessioned - it is simply a administrative and logistical project to finalise...
15 Feb 07
Export approval for limited edition Tenham received
Pictures of coin slabbed numbered limited edition Tenhams up - don't say I didn't warn you about the loyalty implications of early subscription... Ongoing editions will only be made available to existing subscribers - this will be your only opportunity to receive ongoing editions
Tidy-up of sales page soon to include direct e-buy buttons
11 Feb 07
Photographs of Hammond Downs and Tookabarnoo up
7 Feb 07
Micro and macro of Hammond Downs received, micro of Tookabarnoo received, micro of Mulga turns out to be an unclassified Western Australian stone, not paired with other Mulga's and probably a H5
1 Feb 07
Back at work - hooyaa - site updates will occur less frequently - site tidy-up sometime...
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