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Dr. Evans set out from Port Orford on July 18, 1856 and ended up on the coast fork of the Willamette River on July 31. In his journal he makes no specific mention of a meteorite because he was unaware of the nature of his find. He does, however, make a passing reference to a "Bald Mountain." After being contacted by Mr. Jackson about the significance of the sample, he recalled the location as being approximately forty miles from Port Orford on the top of Bald Mountain. The sample in question is removed from a partially buried rock on a western-facing grassy slope otherwise free from any other protrusions. Bald Mountain, as Dr. Evans described it, is higher than the surrounding mountains and easily seen from the ocean. 
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Cosmochemical studies and dynamical models of hit-and-run planetary collisions suggest a new origin for the stony-iron meteorites called pallasites.

Coveted, analysed, eulogised, and resurrected, the Port Orford Meteorite is the nucleus of one of Oregon's classic stories of unclaimed wealth. As both a historical curiosity and gem-laden pallasite meteorite, it would be considered priceless. The legend endures because of enigmatic artefacts from the past, like the talismans of Neahkahnie Mountain or the huge gold nuggets of the Blue Bucket Mine.
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Port Orford Meteorite: Is it a hoax?

Somewhere in the thickly forested Coast Range, within a few dozen miles of the town of Port Orford, there's a chunk of intergalactic rock worth more than $300 million.
Or "...maybe there isn't. Maybe it's all an epic hoax - a huge, audacious practical joke that had the sharpest scientific minds in the world bamboozled for more than a century.
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The Bald Mountain (L4 chondrite) meteorite fell fell near little Elk Creek, North Carolina, USA, on the 9th July, 1929.
A total mass of 3.2 kg was recovered.

35° 58'N, 82° 29'W

If you're travelling through the scenic Coquille Mountains of Southwest Oregon, you might keep an eye out for a bald mountain. For you may find the biggest prize of them alla meteorite of immense size and rare type. A much sought after object dubbed the Lost Port Orford Meteorite, or a better name would be called the Bald Mountain Meteorite, because it lies between forty to fifty miles from Port Orford with a mountain that has a bald top just like actor Patrick Stewart or the mountain did have a hundred years ago when Dr. John Evans saw it. John Evans was a colourful character, a physician turned geologist, who arrived on the West coast in 1885 along with the Isaac I. Stevens expedition that explored the route for a railroad from Minnesota to the Pugent Sound.
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