• Grypania Spiralis (GRY11)

    Notes specific to this specimen: Nice hand-sized slab with several showy and very distinct Grypania strings, some of which have characteristic curvature and arcs. In addition, some of the specimens have desiccation distortion along the sheath.

     

    SIZE: 5″ x 6″

     

    NAME: Grypania spiralis
    AGE: Paleoproterozoic Era / 2.1 billion years
    UNIT : Negaunee Iron Formation
    SITE: Empire Mine, Palmer, Michigan

  • Banded Iron Formation (BIF7)

    Notes specific to this specimen: A classic specimen from a classic locality.  Red jasper alternating with hematite silver banding. One side polished, the other sawn.

     

    SIZE: 2.5″x 4.5″x 3/8″

     

    MINERALS: Jasper & Hematite
    AGE: Paleoproterozoic – 2.1 billion years
    UNIT: Negaunee Iron Formation
    SITE: Ishpeming, Michigan
    COLLECTED: 2025
    BY: Julie & Jon

     

    Documentation: This authentic fossil specimen comes with a Certificate of Authenticity and Origin. In addition, an attractive and informative display card accompanies the specimen.

  • Single Complete Fish GR112

    Notes specific to this specimen:

    Single complete fish

     

    NAME: Knightia, Dyplomystus and various other species
    AGE: Eocene Epoch / 50 million years
    UNIT: Green River Formation
    SITE: Kemmerer, Wyoming

     

    Size: 4″

     

    Documentation: This authentic fossil specimen comes with a Certificate of Authenticity and Origin. In addition, an attractive and informative display card accompanies the specimen.

  • Single Complete Fish GR102

    Notes specific to this specimen:

    Single complete fish

     

    NAME: Knightia, Dyplomystus and various other species
    AGE: Eocene Epoch / 50 million years
    UNIT: Green River Formation
    SITE: Kemmerer, Wyoming

     

    Size: 4″

     

    Documentation: This authentic fossil specimen comes with a Certificate of Authenticity and Origin. In addition, an attractive and informative display card accompanies the specimen.

  • Single Complete Fish GR101

    Notes specific to this specimen:

    Single complete fish

     

    NAME: Knightia, Dyplomystus and various other species
    AGE: Eocene Epoch / 50 million years
    UNIT: Green River Formation
    SITE: Kemmerer, Wyoming

     

    Size: 4″

     

    Documentation: This authentic fossil specimen comes with a Certificate of Authenticity and Origin. In addition, an attractive and informative display card accompanies the specimen.

  • Crystalized Welks (W2)

    Notes specific to this specimen: Fossil welks are much rarer than the clams found at Rucks Pit and most of them have no crystals.  But, when you do find a nice crystal-line specimen, there’s nothing like it in the world!  This is a single welk with a natural opening on its dorsal (top) allowing you to see the crystal lining of the shell and the gray sparite “floor” that was the sediment which partially filled the shell after the animal had died.  Very unusual.

     

    SIZE: 4″

     

    Name / Species: Mercenaria permagna
    Age: Pleistocene 2 Million Years
    Unit: Nashua Formation
    Site: Okeechobee County, Florida
    Collected:
    Collected by:

     

    Documentation: This authentic fossil specimen comes with a Certificate of Authenticity and Origin. In addition, an attractive and informative display card accompanies the specimen.

  • Rainbow Stromatolite (RS1)

    Notes specific to this specimen:  This is one of the original discovery pieces, collected by us in August 2025.  It is characteristic of all the variety of colors found in this site.  We’ve never seen such a variety of colors of stromatolite from a single site.  It reminded us of all the colors of Arizona petrified wood – known as “Rainbow Wood” –  and this became the source for our naming this new discovery “Rainbow Stromatolite”.

     

    SIZE: 2″x 4″x 1.5″

     

    Name Collenia sp. (possible new species)
    Age Anamikean / Paleoproterozoic – 1.88 billion years
    Unit Gunflint Iron Formation
    Site Ontario, Canada
    Date 2025

     

    Documentation: This authentic fossil specimen comes with a Certificate of Authenticity and Origin. In addition, an attractive and informative display card accompanies the specimen.

  • Cerdito Prospect Rift Crystals (CP12)

    Notes specific to this specimen: Nice light-purple amethyst vein running diagonally through this piece. Has great white quartz healed fracture veins on the side and another amethyst cavity in the back. There’s even a small one on the cut bottom! This piece has a flat bottom so it stands up and displays very nicely. Take a look at the bottom and you’ll see the very graphic splitting of the matrix and the subsequent infilling.

     

    SIZE: 4″ x 4″ x 5″

     

    Quartz – Amethyst, Smokey, Citrine, Clear
    AGE: Mesoproterozoic Era – 1.1 billion years
    UNIT: Rove Formation
    SITE: Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada
    DATE: 2022

     

    Documentation: This authentic mineral specimen comes with a Certificate of Authenticity and Origin.

  • Volcanic Bomb (EB4)

    Notes specific to this specimen: Large classic plump fusiform bomb with great aerodynamic striations. It looks like it encountered another in flight but did not complete the merging with it. Natural breaks reveals chalcedony interior which fluoresces a vibrant green. A great specimen.

     

    SIZE: 10″ x 5″ x 4″

     

    NAME: Various forms
    AGE: Pliocene Epoch- 5 million years
    UNIT: Banbury Formation
    SITE: Elko County, Nevada

    DATE: 2020

     

    Documentation: This authentic fossil specimen comes with a Certificate of Authenticity and Origin.

     

  • Iron Stromatolites (ME3)

    Notes specific to this specimen: Rare white colonies with dark banded growth rings. Some have branchings. Specimen found in 1990s at the old Mary Ellen Mine in Biwabik, Minnesota, the type locality for the Biwabik Iron Formation. Notice the silvery spots of concentrated iron between the colonies.

     

    SIZE: 3″ x 5″ x .3″

     

    Name: Collenia undosa
    Unit: Biwabik Iron Formation
    Site: Biwabik Iron Range, Minnesota
    Date: Mid 1990s

     

    Documentation: This authentic fossil specimen comes with a Certificate of Authenticity and Origin.

  • Thunder Bay Amethyst (TBA21)

    Notes specific to this specimen: Deep purple crystals all over the front and top of this specimen.  Nice collection of complex cavities intersecting in this piece.  This is a “stand-up” with a cut flat bottom allowing it to sit upright to show off the crystal cavity nicely.  Rock is naturally rough all the way around.

     

    SIZE: 4″x 3″x 2″

     

    Name / Species: Quartz, variety Amethyst
    Age: Mesoproterozoic Era – 1.1 billion years
    Unit: Archean Granite (unassigned formation)
    Site: Diamond Willow Mine, Pearl, Ontario, Canada
    Collected: 2016
    Collected by: Jon and Julie

     

    Documentation: This authentic specimen comes with a Certificate of Authenticity and Origin.

  • Minnesota Thomsonite (MNT13)

    Notes specific to this specimen: Cut and polished matrix piece from the old Thomsonite Mine along the North SHore of Lake Superior about five miles southwest of Grand Marais, Minnesota. Front polished face has multiple Thomsonites.  Back and sides are rough.

     

    Size: 3″ x 3″ x 2.5″

     

    Name / Species: Thomsonite
    Age: Mesoproterozoic Era, 1.1 billion years
    Unit: Terrace Point Basalt
    Site: Alley Agate Shop Thomsonite Mine Cook County, Grand Marais, MInnesota
    Collected: 1981
    Collected by: Jon Kramer

     

     

    Documentation: This authentic fossil specimen comes with a Certificate of Authenticity and Origin. In addition, an attractive and informative display card accompanies the specimen.

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