Abstract
Oxidation states of Fe in olivine from two pallasites were determined using Mössbauer spectroscopy. The Fo contents of olivine from Quijingue and Brahin were 87 and 89 mol%, respectively. The carefully separated olivine samples were subsidized to the analysis of oxidation states. To evaluate possible contamination of Fe, both XRD and the morphological observation using FE-EPMA were made. Our experiments demonstrated the presence of ferric iron in two olivine samples analyzed in this study.