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5.4 grams.   Iron, IAB-MG

TKW 30 metric tons. Observed fall: no. Impacted about 50,000 years ago. Found 1891 in Coconino County, Arizona, USA, between Flagstaff and Winslow.



 

Shawn writes:

This Canyon Diablo comes from F. Krantz Collection and on the right is a native antimony that came with the meteorite sample. These samples date back from 1890.

History

The mineral dealership of Dr. August Krantz (1809-1872) was founded in 1833 while he was still a student at the Freiberg Mining Academy in Saxony. By 1836 (according to the Berlin City Directory) the company had moved to Brüderstraße 39 in Berlin. Krantz developed extensive connections to important scientists and collectors, eventually becoming one of the foremost mineral dealers in Europe. During the following years Dr. Krantz expanded his business into many countries and continents. The company moved its headquarters to Bonn in 1850, where it opened one of the first geological specialty shops in the world (and where it continues successfully in business today). August Krantz's son-in-law, Theodor Hoffmann, took over the business following Krantz's death in 1872 and ran it until 1888, the last six years with the assistance of the mineralogist Carl Hintze, until Hintze left to take an appointment in Breslau. Hoffmann sold Krantz's personal collection of over 14,000 mineral specimens to the Mineralogical Museum in Bonn in 1874.

Source: http://www.minrec.org/labels.asp?colid=129

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