<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><!DOCTYPE article  PUBLIC "-//NLM//DTD Journal Publishing DTD v3.0 20080202//EN" "http://dtd.nlm.nih.gov/publishing/3.0/journalpublishing3.dtd"><article xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" dtd-version="3.0" xml:lang="en" article-type="research article"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">OJG</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title>Open Journal of Geology</journal-title></journal-title-group><issn pub-type="epub">2161-7570</issn><publisher><publisher-name>Scientific Research Publishing</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.4236/ojg.2015.59057</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">OJG-59949</article-id><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="heading"><subject>Articles</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="Discipline-v2"><subject>Earth&amp;Environmental Sciences</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title>
 
 
  The “Two Camels” of Koussa: A Massive Ferrous Meteorite in Mayo Binka (North-West Region in Cameroon)
 
</article-title></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>ernard</surname><given-names>Njom</given-names></name><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1"><sup>1</sup></xref><xref ref-type="corresp" rid="cor1"><sup>*</sup></xref></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Aurélien</surname><given-names>Temenou Tiolo</given-names></name><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1"><sup>1</sup></xref></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Jacques</surname><given-names>Bertrand Onana</given-names></name><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1"><sup>1</sup></xref></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Yanick</surname><given-names>Nyobe Bayi</given-names></name><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1"><sup>1</sup></xref></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Augustin</surname><given-names>Patrice Moussango Ibohn</given-names></name><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff2"><sup>2</sup></xref></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Simon</surname><given-names>Pierre Mbog Bassong</given-names></name><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff3"><sup>3</sup></xref></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Michel</surname><given-names>Guy Awana Ateba</given-names></name><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1"><sup>1</sup></xref></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Madi</surname><given-names>Boukar</given-names></name><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1"><sup>1</sup></xref></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Thierry</surname><given-names>Abou’ou Ango</given-names></name><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1"><sup>1</sup></xref></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Jean</surname><given-names>Claude Ngoute</given-names></name><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1"><sup>1</sup></xref></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Belle</surname><given-names>Koumedjalla</given-names></name><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1"><sup>1</sup></xref></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Georges</surname><given-names>Emmanuel Ekodeck</given-names></name><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1"><sup>1</sup></xref></contrib></contrib-group><aff id="aff1"><addr-line>Faculté des Sciences, Université de Yaoundé I, Yaoundé, Cameroun</addr-line></aff><aff id="aff2"><addr-line>Institut de Recherches Géologiques et Minières (I.R.G.M), Yaoundé, Cameroun</addr-line></aff><aff id="aff3"><addr-line>Musée National Cameroun, Yaoundé, Cameroun</addr-line></aff><author-notes><corresp id="cor1">* E-mail:<email>njomb@yahoo.fr(EN)</email>;</corresp></author-notes><pub-date pub-type="epub"><day>09</day><month>09</month><year>2015</year></pub-date><volume>05</volume><issue>09</issue><fpage>649</fpage><lpage>654</lpage><history><date date-type="received"><day>13</day>	<month>July</month>	<year>2015</year></date><date date-type="rev-recd"><day>accepted</day>	<month>22</month>	<year>September</year>	</date><date date-type="accepted"><day>25</day>	<month>September</month>	<year>2015</year></date></history><permissions><copyright-statement>&#169; Copyright  2014 by authors and Scientific Research Publishing Inc. </copyright-statement><copyright-year>2014</copyright-year><license><license-p>This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution International License (CC BY). http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/</license-p></license></permissions><abstract><p>
 
 
  At Koussa in Mayo Binka, a hundred kilometers northeasterly from the town of Bamenda, the Capital of the North-West Region in Cameroon, an enormous block of native iron of several tons in mass is found. The observation of the Southern view of this block let anyone see a configuration which surprisingly recalls two camels in an attitude that these animals generally adopt when they are at rest. This strong resemblance with the attitude of these animals in rest has led the local populations in identifying this enormous metallic block with the name of “the two camels’ couple” or simply stills “the two camels”. The test conducted with the acid let the Neumann figures be revealed the Neumann figures which confirm this metallic block as being a ferrous meteorite or a siderite of the
   
  Hexaedrites
   
  class.
 
</p></abstract><kwd-group><kwd>Koussa</kwd><kwd> Mayo Binka</kwd><kwd> Bamenda</kwd><kwd> Cameroon</kwd><kwd> Neumann Figures</kwd><kwd> PDF’s</kwd><kwd> Hoba</kwd><kwd> Hexaedrites</kwd><kwd> BIF</kwd></kwd-group></article-meta></front><body><sec id="s1"><title>1. Description of the “Two Camels” of Koussa (Plate II)</title><p>The block of native iron of Koussa has an East-West general orientation along which it lengthens. Three views of this block of native iron are presented here: the Southern, the Northern, and the Western sights.</p><sec id="s1_1"><title>1.1. The Southern View (Plate II)</title><p>It is by far the view which offers to the observation, invaluable block details in connection with arguments making it possible to go up the trajectory of the long flight of this block from space to Koussa. The regmaglytes that one sees there are giant, of inhabitual dimensions; three of these regmaglytes of sub-metric to metric size are prominent and seem to carve this Southern face of the metallic block; the largest and deepest of these regmaglytes is of 1.5 m in diametre for a depth beyond the metre. This deepest regmaglyte from this view is centrally situated on the metallic block. The second regmaglyte in the view disunites the “spinal columns” of the two “animals”; and the third and fourth regmaglytes are affecting the right “shoulders” of both “animals”. The metallic block is stretched on close to 6 m in its East-West orientation for a height of more than 3 m. These dimensions are actually the first or initial indications since the metallic block is deeply buried. The geophysics approach relating to the measurement of the resistivity’s values around the metallic block revealed its prolongation back towards the West on more than 3 m distance, and in depth. In spite of the rust marker of the time already passed at Koussa, traces of castings pointing out a fusion crust are still visible inside the receptacles which constitute these regmaglytes. A more or less deep central furrow braided in height seems to connect these regmaglytes the ones to the others.</p></sec><sec id="s1_2"><title>1.2. The Northern View</title><p>This face is marked by the prevalence of the protuberance corresponding to the gigantic hollow of the major regmaglyte of the opposite face.</p></sec><sec id="s1_3"><title>1.3. The Eastern View</title><p>It is allowed or obtained from the western sight; this view offers to the observation, the heads of both “animals” vertically and horizontally shifted. The head ahead is lightly presented in profile because of its slight rotation towards the South.</p><p>The fusion crust and the central furrow give certainly an account of fluids dynamics in relation with the successive thermal states along the final incidental trajectory of this meteorite.</p></sec></sec><sec id="s2"><title>2. Chemical Composition</title><p>Chemical analyses performed in Ireland (OMAC Laboratories) gave the results below (%):</p><p>ppm: C: 0.04; S: 0.17; Ni: 19; Ir: &lt;0.001; Os: &lt;0.01.</p><p>The Fe high content (87.7%) relates to the former initial homogeneity in composition of the “two camels” the actual composition of which reveals some chemical pollution namely in silica, surely from the proximal environment made of Precambrian granites irregularly caped with tertiary volcanites. Fe could have combined with S in the Tro&#239;lite mineral (FeS); presence of Ni (19 ppm) is an indication of the Fe-Ni alloy from a former initial liquid very low in Ni content. PGE members are present of which Ir with a prevalent concentration 20 times higher than that of the terrestrial Crust [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.59949-ref1">1</xref>] [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.59949-ref2">2</xref>] !</p></sec><sec id="s3"><title>3. The Neumann Figures</title><p>Native iron is distinguished from iron associated with the natural phenomena inherent to sedimentation or magmatism which are endogenous phenomena of our planet, by more increased density (≥4) but especially by the specific reaction which it causes during the test to the acid. Two cases of figure are then observed: Windmannst&#228;ten figures which reveal variations in chemical composition (relative contents between taenite and kamacite) of the initial metallic liquid with more than 5% of Nickel content during its crystallization; this crystallization gives place to Siderites of the Octaedrites class. The Neumann bands markers of the successive shocks undergone by parents’ bodies during their phase of differentiation, shocks which are at the origin of the polygranulation or the brecciaton. These Neumann bands and this polygranulation characterize Siderites too; but those of the Hexaedrites class [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.59949-ref3">3</xref>] - [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.59949-ref6">6</xref>] .</p><p>The acid tests were performed on a sample taken away from the “two camels” and on another block of native iron found around the town of Sangm&#233;lima in the Southern Region of Cameroon. The results of these tests are those appearing in various images of the above plate ( Plate I ): the block of native iron of Sangm&#233;lima after the test undoubtedly reveals a polygranulation with a variation of colour in connection with a light variation in the chemical composition of these grains. Geometrical arrangement appears unspecified or random what reinforces a mechanism of brecciation (a and b images). On the “two camels” sample, the acid shows rectilinear lines defining intersecting bands in angles nearly equal to the right angle; the generated geometrical figures are those of the cubic class {001} since one recognizes in the images, squares which are geometrical figures drawn by preferential casting of iron in thin straps due to the energy of the crossing shock wave, which highlighted the isometric structure specific to metals: these are the Neumann bands (images c, d, e, f, g) [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.59949-ref3">3</xref>] - [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.59949-ref6">6</xref>] .</p><p>The acid tests either on the “two camels” sample or on the native iron block of Sangm&#233;lima, allow the strong and undeniable conclusions: the polygranulation and the Neumann bands both related to the shock effects, reveal the intrinsic meteoritic nature of Siderites, that of the Hexaedrites class.</p></sec><sec id="s4"><title>4. Discussion</title><sec id="s4_1"><title>4.1. Questions Relative to the Native Iron Presence onto the Earth Surface</title><p>Native iron generally poses a problem; that of its origin or its source when found on the Earth surface. What is indicated as Itabirites or BIF is a set or a mixture between the crystals of magnetite and sand [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.59949-ref7">7</xref>] [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.59949-ref8">8</xref>] ; these sedimentary formations of old age (Precambrian) characterize from the paleogeographic consideration, a sufficiently dry climatic context so that evaporation exceeds the contributions by precipitations. Such a context points out that of the deserts such as one can observe them today on Earth, with their extreme scarcity of the rains. Iron saturates within the various ponds and other pools, and starts to precipitate at the bottom while mixing with sand.</p><p>Knowing that the sand dune is the major palaeogeographic marker of a desert, the debate on the possible presence of Itabirites in our country deserves to be opened: nowhere in the geographical sectors where these “Itabirites” in our country or elsewhere in the sub-region are announced, nobody still provided the least proof of</p><disp-formula id="scirp.59949-formula1256"><graphic  xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/5-1210371x5.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>Plate I. (a) (b) Brecciated texture of a native iron block from Sangmelima revealed after the test acid; (c)-(g) Brecciated texture and Neumann figures from the “two camels” of Koussa confirming a meteoritic nature of the Hexaedrites class.</p><p>a presence of the fossil dunes having to validate a paleogeographic context of a desert. On the other hand the hydrographic networks of multiple and concentric rings layout in Cameroon for example, which reveal immense multi-rings basins such that of Dja or that of Great Mbam abounding in much water, the strong recurrence of breccias on the whole of the Gulf of Guinea area, all of these parameters being either geomorphological or lithological, characterize the impact craters and thus the phenomenon of meteoritic impact [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.59949-ref4">4</xref>] - [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.59949-ref6">6</xref>] , [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.59949-ref9">9</xref>] - [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.59949-ref16">16</xref>] . The meteoritic nature of the “two camels” in Mayo Binka and that of the block of native iron of Sangm&#233;lima revealed through the test with the acid fully confirm a phenomenon of meteoritic impact on a large scale in the Gulf of Guinea. The iron found in our country and elsewhere in the sub-region of Central Africa, is thus more meteoritic than sedimentary. And the emblematical “couple of the two camels” of Mayo Binka with its mass and size, is the concrete and undeniable proof of a powerful bombardment of our sub-region by metallic hyperveloce bolides coming from space; that is the mechanism of installation of all the iron ores in central Africa.</p></sec><sec id="s4_2"><title>4.2. The “Two Camels”: The Largest Meteorite in the World</title><p>The stretched configuration of the meteorite of Mayo Binka along the East-West direction, gives him in space, a general morphology which is that of a triaxial ellipsoid directed along its major axis; this major axis is of 6 m length. The intermediate axis corresponds to the height of the meteorite either 3 m, and the minor axis coincides with the depth of the largest regmaglyte dug at the centre of the meteorite or 1.5 m. The densities of Siderites are about 8000 kg/m<sup>3</sup>; this is why Siderites constitute an iron of excellent quality because precisely of this significant density which they acquire while condensing under high pressures inside the heart of the parent body during its</p><p>differentiation. The volume of this ellipsoid is given by the relation: <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/5-1210371x6.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>is 14 m<sup>3</sup>.</p><p>Having got value of volume and that of the density allows the precise determination of the mass either 113,097 kg or 113 tonnes! We point out here that the meteorite being deeply buried and being prolonged towards the West on more than 3 m of distance, the dimensions used for calculations carried out above because they refer only to the visible part of this meteorite, obviously represent only the first approach in this evaluation the mass of the “two camels” is largely beyond the 113 tonnes. 113 tonnes of mass corresponds for this first evaluation, close to the double of the mass of the meteorite of Hoba in Namibia, another Siderite of a mass of 60tonnes considered so far the largest meteorite in the world: the “two camels” of Koussa in Mayo Binka in Cameroon ( Plate II ), is consequently, the largest meteorite in the world.</p></sec></sec><sec id="s5"><title>5. Conclusions</title><p>It is of tradition in Cameroon and beyond in central Africa to indicate the iron-bearing formations as “Itabirites”</p><disp-formula id="scirp.59949-formula1257"><graphic  xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/5-1210371x7.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>Plate II. The “two camels couple” of Koussa; here the south view showing the characteristic attitude at rest of such biologic animals. The siderite lengthens along the W-E direction (the East is on the right).</p><disp-formula id="scirp.59949-formula1258"><graphic  xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/5-1210371x8.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>Plate III. Shocked minerals; on the left, a shocked quartz from Precambrian granites of Mayo Binka. On the top right, a shocked quartz from breccias in Ndikinimeki. Besides on the right and below, a shocked plagioclases from the Ntem Complex in Sangmelima.</p><p>or “BIF”. This designation because of the younger age and the metamorphic nature of the designated formations eludes as quickly as easily the very old sedimentary context of “BIF” installation on Earth. And this designation also causes serious confusions and major contradictions to national geological maps! Are the geographical sites of these “Itabirites” in Cameroon sedimentary, metamorphic or magmatic in nature? Are the bearing magnetites quarzites of Ngovayang or those of Ndikinimeki and elsewhere in Cameroon of 2billions years in age the real minimum age of true Itabirites on Earth?</p><p>Taking into account the meteoritic character of the iron of the Gulf of Guinea, then the geomorphology and the high recurrence of the crystalline basement in shocked minerals ( Plate III ), mainly of quartz [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.59949-ref17">17</xref>] - [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.59949-ref27">27</xref>] , make it possible to foresee an arrival from space, of immense metallic blocks whose collision with the target crystalline basement succeeds in explaining more simply the distribution of the iron ores not only inside the individual territories, but also beyond. The emblematical “two camels” of Koussa in Mayo Binka ( Plate II ), a siderite of the Hexaedrites class, of a minimal mass of 113 tonnes, from now on the largest meteorite in the world, is the concrete and irrefutable proof of such arrivals.</p></sec><sec id="s6"><title>Cite this paper</title><p>BernardNjom,Aur&#233;lien TemenouTiolo,Jacques BertrandOnana,Yanick NyobeBayi,Augustin Patrice MoussangoIbohn,Simon Pierre MbogBassong,Michel Guy AwanaAteba,MadiBoukar,Thierry Abou’ouAngo,Jean ClaudeNgoute,BelleKoumedjalla,Georges EmmanuelEkodeck, (2015) The “Two Camels” of Koussa: A Massive Ferrous Meteorite in Mayo Binka (North-West Region in Cameroon). Open Journal of Geology,05,649-654. doi: 10.4236/ojg.2015.59057</p></sec></body><back><ref-list><title>References</title><ref id="scirp.59949-ref1"><label>1</label><mixed-citation publication-type="other" xlink:type="simple">Alvarez, L.W., Alvarez, W., Asaro, F. and Michel, H.V. 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