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lowest and highest nickel value in the hexahedrites is about 2 

 percent, in octahedrites the range is about 6 percent, while in ataxites 

 it is nearer 18 percent. 



DESCRIBED HEXAHEDRITES 



Table 1 lists all known hexahedrites as of July 1962, together with 

 their weights and dates of fall or find. Synonyms are not numbered. 



Table 1. — List of described hexahedrites. 



Weight, Date of Date of 



Name kilograms discovery fall 



Angela (see La Primitiva) 



Aragon, Ga. (see Cedar town) 



1. Aswan, Egypt ? 1953 



2. Auburn, Ala 3.6 1867 



3. Avce, Italy 1.23 Mar. 31, 1908 



4. Barraba, Australia (Bingara) 1.36 unknown 



5. Bellsbank, S. Africa 38 1950 ( ?) 



6. Bennet Co., S. Dak 89 1934 



7. Bingara, N. S. Wales 1.1 & 6.4 1880 



8. Boguslavka, Siberia 199 & 57 Oct. 18, 1916 



9. Braunau, Czechoslovakia 22 & 17 July 14, 1847 



10. Bruno, Canada 13 1913 



11. Cedartown, Ga 11.3 before 1898 



12. Central Missouri i 25 1885 



13. Chesterville, S. C 16.5 1848 



14. Chico Mountain, Tex 2,000 2 before 1915 



15. Chinguetti, French W. Africa — s 1920 



16. Cincinnati, Ohio unknown 1870 



17. Coahuila, Mexico 1,000 1837 



18. Corrego do Areado, Brazil 32 1925 



19. Coya Norte, Chile 17.9 1927 



20. Edmonton, Canada 7.34 1939 



El Mocovi (see Otumpa) 



21. Filomena, Chile 21.1 1941 



Fort Duncan (see Coahuila) 



22. Forsyth County, N. C 17 1891 



Gressk, Russia (see Hressk) 



23. Hex River, Africa 60 1882 



24. Holland's Store, Ga 12.27 1887 



25. Hressk, Russia 11.9 1954 



26. Indian Valley, Va 14 1887 



27. Iredell, Tex 1.5 1898 



^Usually this iron is listed as a coarse octahedrite, but Perry (1944) consid- 

 ered it a granulated hexahedrite. See plate 4. 



2 Sample lost, weight unconfirmed. 



3 Reported as 100 meters long, 45 meters high. These figures probably were 

 intended to be centimeters, not meters. 



