NWA Meteorites for Sale

NWA Meteorites for Sale –  Meteorites recovered from the NWA (Northwest Africa) dense collection area of the Saharan Desert.  They are referred to as “NWA” and the number after NWA is the catalog number.  ie NWA869  The majority of meteorites coming out of the deserts pass through Morocco and end up with the designation of “NWA”.  OR they are “unclassified NWA” by the Nomenclature Committee (NonCom) of the Meteoritical Society.

Western and European fossil hunters had a long presence in Morocco and Mauritania.  This same geographic area also holds rich deposits of fossils, minerals, and prehistoric human artifacts. When the nomads began bringing back unusual black rocks from the open desert, some of the rock and fossil dealers took notice. Word soon spread across the region that foreign dealers would pay for these heavy, black rocks. The nomads and desert dwellers then started to actively look for these stones.  They discovered that the remote desert was literally sprinkled with distinctive and potentially-valuable meteorites

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