Tramp iron magnets suspended over conveyor belts at coal mines and coal processing plants may pull fossil meteorites out of the coal.

Fossil meteorites are meteorites which fell millions of years ago into ancient coal swamps. Buried in coal swamps long ago, these meteorites should be preserved in coal beds today. Coal mining may liberate fossil meteorites, some of which are stony-iron or nickel-iron meteorites. These meteorites are strongly magnetic.

At many mines, electromagnetic separators are in operation over conveyor belts for the purpose of pulling tramp metal out of the coal stream. These existing magnets will collect any iron meteorites to be found in the coal.

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