On a Meteoric Stone from Simondium, Cape Colony

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In October 1907 two mineral-specimens were sent for investigation to the Mineral Department of the British Museum by Mr R. T. Hancock, of Cardiff, who had brought them back from South Africa. On examination they proved to contain patches of olivine and troilite and particles of nickeliferous iron, and appeared therefore to be of meteoric origin. According to Mr. Hancock two ‘boulders’ of similar material had been found, 100 yards apart and a foot below the surface, in gravel near Simondium Station on the Paarl to French Hock line, Cape Colony. These ‘boulders’, which were as much as a foot in diameter, were broken up into small fragments by the finders, who supposed the bright particles of metallic iron exposed on the fractured surfaces to be silver.