Meteorite Crystals, bringing pieces from the Space just for you.

About us:

• We have over 20 years experience in the meteorite business.

• We participated at the biggest Mineral Shows in the world like: Tucson Arizona (USA), Saint Marie aux Mine (France), Munich (Germany), Changsha (China), Tokyo (Japan) and others. ​

• We are members of the international meteorite collectors association (I.M.C.A) which guarantees the authenticity of all our meteorites. ​

• We have the largest stock in the world of meteorite crystals, so if you are looking for quality and good price this is the right place. ​

Specifications:

• The price displayed is by 125 grams

• Weight of the pieces: ​5 to 10 g (each crystal)

• Average weight: 6,7 g (each crystal)

• Average size: 0,83" (2.1 cm) (each crystal)

• ​Number of pieces in a kg: 25 pieces approximately

Shipping:

• Buyer pays shipping costs.

• We usually use Fedex to make the deliver but if you want to use another service we don't have any problem.

We can combine multiple purchases for save your shipping costs!

Please feel free to consult us if you have any questions or concerns!

About Campo del cielo:

• Location:  Campo del Cielo, Gran Chaco, Gualamba and Santiago del Estero Argentina, about 1000 km
  north-northwest of Buenos Aires. Latitude 27 degrees 39 minutes South, Longitude 61 degrees, 44 minutes west.    

• Structural class: Coarse octahedrite, Widmanstatten bandwith 3.0 + 0.6MM.

• Chemical class: Group IAB, 6.68%Ni, 0.43%Co, 0.25%P, 87 ppm Ga, 407 ppm Ge, 3.6 ppm Ir.

• Time of fall: 4.000 to 6.000 years ago.

• History:

The Meteorite Campo del Cielo was first discovered by the Spanish in 1576 when the Governor of a province in

Northern Argentina commissioned the military to search for a huge mass of metal,that they belive was silver. The

Indians claimed that the mass had fallen from the sky in a place they called Piguem Nonralta which the Spanish

translated as Campo del Cielo ("Field of the Sky"). The expedition found a large mass of metal protruding out of

the soil. They assumed it was a silver mine and brought back a few samples, which were described as being of

unusual purity. The governor documented the expedition and deposited the report in the Archivo General

de Indias in Seville, but it was quickly forgotten and later reports on that area merely repeated the Indian legends. 

Following the legends, in 1774 don Bartolome Francisco de Maguna rediscovered the iron mass which he called el 

Meson de Fierro ("the Table of Iron"). Maguna thought the mass was the tip of an iron vein.

The next expedition, led by Rubin de Celis in 1783, used explosives to clear the ground around the mass and

found that it was probably a single stone. Celis estimated its mass as 15 tones and abandoned it as worthless. He

himself did not believe that the stone had fallen from the sky and assumed that it had formed by a volcanic

eruption. However, he sent the samples to the Royal Society of London and published his report in the

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society. Those samples were later analyzed and found to contain 90%

iron and 10% nickel and assigned to a meteoritic origin.