Abstract
There have been many searches for magnetic monopoles in flight, but few for monopoles in matter. We have searched for magnetic monopoles in meteorites, schists, ferromanganese nodules, iron ores, and other materials. The detector was a superconducting induction coil connected to a superconducting quantum interference device with a room temperature bore 15 cm in diameter. We tested a total of more than 331 kg of material including 112 kg of meteorites. We found no monopole and conclude the overall monopole $/$nucleon ratio in the samples is $<1.2\ifmmode\times\else\texttimes\fi{}{10}^{\ensuremath{-}29}$ with a 90% confidence level.
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