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Notes on a New Mass of Meteoric Iron from the Cordillera of Copiapo, Chile

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 March 2016

Wm. Bollaert
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This was found by a muleteer, in June, 1858, when passing the Cordillera from Catamarca to Copiapo, and brought by him to the latter city. He took it to be a rodado, or piece of silver-ore that had been broken from a vein and rounded by being washed with stones, say in the bed of a river; but on its being examined by Dr. David Garcia (a pupil of Domeyko), at Copiapo, he pronounced it to be a mass of meteoric iron,

Dr. D. Garcia is the manager of the “Transito“ maquina or silver amalgamating works, and has this specimen in his possession.

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The Geologist , Volume 5 , Issue 3 , March 1862 , pp. 89 - 91
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1862

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page 90 note * I gave 23° 30′ S., 68° 50′ W. as the position of Dr. Reid's specimens (which are at Ratisbon), and there may be a doubt that they came from Imilac, which is in 23° 49′ S., 69° 14′ W.

page 91 note * It is not known when the Otumpa iron fell. It was visited by Celis and Cerviño in 1783. The length of it is 3¼ yards, 2 yards in width, 4 feet 6 inches deep, and contains 9¾ cubic yards. This appears to be independent of smaller pieces. It is called by the natives the Masa de fierro, or mass of iron; the meteorite of the Chaco; of the Chaco Gualamba. It was discovered by people from Santiago del Estero on one of their expeditions to “malear,” or hunt for honey and wax. It is in about 27° 43′ S., 2° 40′ W. of Buenos Ayres.