 Chinguetti meteorite

The Chinguetti meteorite is a find reputed to come from a large unconfirmed 'iron mountain' in Africa.The existence of a huge stony-iron mesosiderite approximately 45 kilometers from the Saharan city Chinguetti, Mauritania, has been a mystery since 1916, when Captain Gaston Ripert, a French consular official, claimed to have discovered 'a huge iron hill high and long.'