| Locality type: | Meteorite Fall Location |
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| Species: | Schreibersite |
| Formula: | (Fe,Ni)3P |
| Comments: | Obvious as scattered skeleton crystals (up to 10 x 10 x 5 mm) enveloped in 5-10 mm swathing kamacite. But most schreibersite is present as winding 0.1-0.5 mm wide grain boundary veins. |
| Confirmation |
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| Validity: | Believed Valid |
| Data |
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| Mineral Data: | Click here to view Schreibersite data |
| Locality Data: | Click here to view El Burro meteorite, Acuna Municipality, Coahuila, Mexico |
| Data Identifiers |
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| Mindat Occurrence Record ID: | 827353 |
| Long-form Identifier: | 1:3:827353:6 |
| GUID (UUID V4): | 55c9c7ee-d673-4969-b66f-34c4a1a0e615 |
| Nearest other occurrences of Schreibersite |
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| 84.0km (52.2 miles) | ⓘAcuña meteorite, Acuna Municipality, Coahuila, Mexico |
| 84.1km (52.2 miles) | ⓘDel Rio meteorite, Val Verde County, Texas, USA |
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| Reference Search (possible matching items) |
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 | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | EL BURRO, COAHUILA, MEXICO, METEORITE E. P. HnNoBRSoN,*U. S. National Museum, Washington, D. C. ABSTRACT...ABSTRACT A new meteorite from northern Coahuila, Mexico, is described and its chemical composition compared...iron-nickel equilibrium diagram. Reasons are given why El Burro is classified as a coarse octahedrite and also...coarse octahedrites. The El Burro meteorite was found in northern Coahuila, Mexico, in April of 1939, but...to our informant this meteorite was found close to some hills known as El Burro, and hence the reason |
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