Meteoric iron
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Meteoric iron, sometimes meteoritic iron, is a native metal and early-universe protoplanetary-disk remnant found in meteorites and made from the elements iron and nickel, mainly in the form of the min
Widmanstätten pattern on a 500g endcut from the Toluca iron meteorite
A lance made from a narwhal tusk with an iron head made from the Cape York meteorite.
Telluric iron
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Telluric iron, also called native iron, is iron that originated on Earth, and is found in a metallic form rather than as an ore. Telluric iron is extremely rare, with only one known major deposit in t
Meteoric iron
…phases kamacite and taenite. Meteoric iron makes up the bulk of iron meteorites but is also found in other meteorites. Apart from minor amounts of telluric iron, meteoric iron is the only naturally occurring native metal of the element iron (in metallic form rather than in an ore) on the Earth's surface. The…
Sawed slab of basalt with bright, metallic native-iron inclusions from Uivfaq, Disko Island (specimen size: 7.8 cm × 3.5 cm × 0.6 cm (3.07 in × 1.38 in × 0.24 in))
Hand-sized sample of native iron from Disko Island, Greenland
Native iron from basalt quarry at Bühl, Weimar, district of Kassel, Germany (size: 6.6 × 5.9 × 1.8 cm)