Specimens
Due to weathering, intact olivine grains are present only on large specimens (over 1 kg). Smaller samples contains darker alterated olivine cristals. On the market there are also a lot of very small (few grams) Imilac individuals called metal skeletons: they are severely weathered and lack olivine grains.
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