• Cerdito Prospect Rift Crystals (CP13)

    Notes specific to this specimen: Cool combination piece dominated by a cavity of nice light smokey quartz crystals encased in an amethyst vein. Note: One of the large crystals has a broken tip. But the rest is clean and gemmy. This piece has a cut-flat bottom so it stands up and displays very nicely. Take a look at the cut bottom and you’ll see the very graphic splitting of the matrix and the subsequent infilling with deeper smokey quartz.

     

    SIZE: 4″ x 4″ x 4″

     

    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.

  • Crystalized Clam (OK3)

    Notes specific to this specimen: Great honey calcite crystals replacing the clam shell trapped in matrix. This piece has a sawn flat bottom so it stands up nicely on its own. Nice display specimen

     

    SIZE: 8″x 5″x 5″

     

    NAME: Mercenaria permagna
    AGE: Pleistocene 2 million years
    UNIT: Nashua Formation
    SITE: Okeechobee County, Florida

     

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

  • Trilobite (T5)

    Notes specific to this specimen:
    DEATH FLOW specimen- Here is a very rare and unusual piece showing a complete Elrathia triloibite caught in the midst of the “Death Flow” megaspecimen we uncovered in 2004. You can see the mayhem that accompanied the mudslide- with hundreds of trilibites and trilobite parts both large and small, all mashed together surrounding it. The fact this one is intact and complete indicates the force of the slide was probably dissipating by the time it reached this spot. But it was buried and succumbed nonetheless. Professionally prepared using air-abrade. We found other specimens similar to this but they are already in museums.

     

    NAME: Elrathia kingii, Peronopsis and various other species
    AGE: Cambrian Period, 505 million years
    UNIT: Wheeler Shale Formation
    SITE: Millard County, Wyoming

     

    Size: 3″ x 3″

     

    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 Clam (OK1)

    Notes specific to this specimen: This complete clam is packed full with honey calcite. There are some fantastic radial calcite crystals amidst a solid honey calcite matrix. The back is a partially recrystallized shell. This is a singularly unique find.

     

    SIZE: 5″x 3″x 2″

     

    NAME: Mercenaria permagna
    AGE: Pleistocene 2 million years
    UNIT: Nashua Formation
    SITE: Okeechobee County, Florida

     

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

  • Iron Stromatolites (ME4)

    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: 5″ x 7″ 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.

  • Fossil Sand Dollar and Clam (KH2)

    Notes specific to this specimen: Matrix piece that has a flat bottom so it stands nicely. This specimen has one large and one infant sand dollar with a nice polished clam that has great colors.

     

    SIZE: 5″x 3″x 3″

     

    NAME: Psuedocardium & Dendraster
    AGE: Pliocene Epoch – 4 million years
    UNIT: Etchegoin Formation
    SITE: Kettleman Hills, California
    DATE: 2023

     

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

  • Fossil Sand Dollar and Clam (KH4)

    Notes specific to this specimen: Beautiful and showy matrix piece with flat bottom so it stands nicely. This specimen has one large polished sand dollar and one infant sand dollar along with a great polished clam.

     

    SIZE: 4″x 3″x 3″

     

    NAME: Psuedocardium & Dendraster
    AGE: Pliocene 4 million years
    UNIT: Etchegoin Formation
    SITE: Kettleman Hills, California

     

    Documents: 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.

  • Crystalized Welks (W1)

    Notes specific to this specimen: At our Rucks Pit site we sometimes come across fossil welks (conchs).  On rare occasions they may be crystalized.  This one has been cut in half to show the great crystal-lined hollow section inside.  Rare find.

     

    SIZE: 5″

     

    NAME: Mercenaria permagna
    AGE: Pleistocene 2 million years
    UNIT: Nashua Formation
    SITE: Okeechobee County, Florida

     

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

  • Iron Stromatolites (ME2)

    Notes specific to this specimen: Beautiful deep red agatization in these colonies attest to the classic origin of this specimen as being from the old Mary Ellen Mine in Biwabik, Minnesota, the type locality for the Biwabik Iron Formation. The mine shut down over 50 years ago. Notice the off-set angle of the growth pattern in this piece. This is attributed to constant water currents in the area where these colonies were growing. *This specimen comes with a Certificate of Authenticity and Origin

     

    SIZE: 4″ x 7″ 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.

  • Septarian Nodule Bowl

    Notes specific to this specimen: An entirely unique item, this septarian nodule was excavated and carved into a bowl by Jon in 2018. The specimen is from the famous Muddy Creek septarian beds in southern Utah, east of Zion National Park. Our friends own a mining claim there and we periodically visit them to collect nodules. Most septarians are not conducive to carving into bowls. This is the only septarian nodule bowl ever sculpted by Jon. He kept it as his own since the day he sculpted it. Alas, it is being displaced from his personal collection by other, larger projects. It has a beautiful shine and fluoresces nicely under UV light. Jon has indicated he may – or may not! – ever do another one.

     

    SIZE: 6″ x 6″ x 4″

     

    SEPTARIAN NODULE BOWL
    AGE: Cretaceous Period, 70 million years
    UNIT: Frontier Formation
    SITE: Orderville, Utah
    DATE: 2018

     

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

  • Crystalized Clam (OK2)

    Notes specific to this specimen: A complete clam with druzy honey calcite crystals exposed on the front and a recrystallized shell on back. A very unique specimen.

     

    SIZE: 4″x 3″x 2″

     

    NAME: Mercenaria permagna
    AGE: Pleistocene 2 million years
    UNIT: Nashua Formation
    SITE: Okeechobee County, Florida

     

    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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