Black Market Booming with Meteorites from Space

The black market has grown in size quite rapidly, the increase came from the selling of meteorites that fell from space onto the Egyptian soil. Due to the government instability there, it has been difficult to keep control of the excavation sites, which allowed looters to dig in themselves and sell it on the market. Although with no real credibility, user fastparticles from Reddit says that these fragments from space are not that valuable at all since they are iron meteorites, and scientists have a lot of them. The rarest seems to drop in more remote places, such as Antarctica where looters don't have access. Apparently the more valuable pieces are stone meteorites, which most of the related science is done on.

Source: 
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/05/science/05meteorite.html?_r=1&ref=science
http://www.reddit.com/r/science/comments/gistx/the_black_market_trade_in_meteorites/
http://so-me.coolcats.fr/2009/05/type-iid-meteorite/