Study lead author Albert Jambon, an archaeometallurgist and professor emeritus at Sorbonne University in Paris, said the ...
Meteorites are primarily stony chondrites, but also include iron-rich achondrites and pallasites. Studying meteors provides ...
The high nickel content in the iron indicated that the jewellery was crafted from an 'out of this world' metal.
The pack provided by STFC includes a 1.2 billion-year-old piece of Mars rock and a 4.3 billion-year-old nickel meteorite. The packs have been recently updated to also include a new meteorite hunter’s ...
Archaeologists have uncovered stunning evidence that Iron Age metalworkers in Poland were forging jewelry from meteorites ...
Based on the high nickel levels in the iron, researchers believe the artefacts are made from an ataxite meteorite. Ataxites are an especially rare form of iron meteorites. Despite their rarity ...
The FNX story is well-known in Sudbury mining circles. A junior miner whose share value was under a dollar per unit in the early 2000s purchased a number of non-core assets from the old Inco Ltd. (now ...
Scientists at the Natural History Museum in London have analysed the composition of meteorites that have fallen ... cobalt and nickel. They are a fantastic resource for many metals." ...