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Komsomolka found out prices in official stores and on black the market. “Changing meteorites to a motorcycle.” Such an announcement left on the Internet a young man from the village of Deputatskoye. On the inhabitants of this a tiny village in the winter literally rained made of precious stones. Each peasant in the bins there a fragment of a meteorite that fell on February 15. A lot of pebbles and residents surrounding villages and distant cities. In the “post-apocalyptic” days people scoured the fields, looking for shards in the snow. But they turned out people without need. Well, they donated a couple, put something off for descendants. And where to put the rest? So they are sold. On the web you can find two dozen offers. The average price that sellers asking for a Chelyabinsk meteorite – 500 rubles per gram. Come across greedy that are cheaper than 1000 do not trade. And there are generous guys, that they will part with their wonders for only 100 rubles per gram. Some even try to use PR technology. For example, one an ad written on behalf of an infant: – My dad himself collected. And next to the photo – in a children’s cam a black pebble is clamped. how can’t you buy it from? Private traders have meteorites, of course, cheaper. But also no guarantee that this is the original. And in official stores they ask for a little more, but everything is in order with the papers. – Chelyabinsk meteorites are very small, the largest weighs only 5 grams, – they told us in one of the city “jewelers”. – Behind we ask him for 3,750 rubles. But we give a guarantee. If you do examination, and it will show that this is not a meteorite, then we will return everything money. In the capital’s online store prices are even higher. – small We sell samples at 1000 rubles per gram, they said there. – If If you buy a large meteorite, then we will make a discount – 750 rubles. On the Some samples have certificates. In addition, we will help to get official conclusion of the Institute of Geochemistry. Lowest Price meteorites with a guarantee appeared in the online store located in St. Petersburg. There, they ask for only 460 rubles per gram. But in there are only three pebbles. By the way, if you compare with world prices on precious metals, the Chelyabinsk meteorite is catching up at a cost gold. According to the Central Bank, for a gram of the latter they ask for 1400 rubles. Our car is a bit short.
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