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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 14 March 2018
The author arrived at Huckitta station, 135 miles north-east of Alice Springs, towards the end of June, 1937, on an expedition to the Tarlton Range at the north end of the Simpson Desert. The manager of the station, Mr. W. Madrill, said that a haft-caste named Mick Laughton employed on the station had a stone he would like to show, and this was produced by Laughton in the usual diffident manner of the half-caste. It proved to be a flat, rusty mass weighing a little over nine pounds. A few knocks with a hammer soon showed it to consist in part at least of malleable iron, and a meteorite was at once suggested. The specimen was not very closely examined, and the olivines, which show up so excellently on the polished surfaces, were entirely overlooked, which is quite easily done in the case of the iron-shale or the more weathered natural surface of the meteorite, although olivine makes up more than half the volume. It was said that the specimen came off a big stone which stood several feet out of the ground.
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