by sysadmin | Feb 10, 2015 | Blog
Crocoite on white Gibbsite- Adelaide Mine, Red River Lower Pocket, Tasmania, Australia. 7.5 cm tall. An exceptional piece donated to the foundation by a good friend from Tasmania, Shane Stanfield.
by sysadmin | Jan 31, 2015 | Blog
Petrified wood with Amethyst- Araucaria- Chinle Formation, Holbrook, Arizona. Triassic period 225 mya 6 ” x 5 ” Destruction of many of Arizona’s fossil logs in the 1890’s by persons seeking Quartz minerals was responsible for having the area...
by sysadmin | Jan 29, 2015 | Blog
Danube River Valley, Balkan Region. Byzantine Iron Age: 6th – 11th Century AD 7 cm long These iron arrowheads were made for and used by the Byzantine Christian Roman armies defending the …Empire’s northern border along the Danube River in the present...
by sysadmin | Jan 23, 2015 | Blog
Considered to be one of the finest Opal Limb Casts ever found in Ethiopia. Tsehey Mewcha, Wegeltena, Wollo Province, Ethiopia. 3.5 cm x 5 cm face X 7 cm long. … Limb casts are formed when Agate is deposited in the vacant cavities of tree branches once covered by...
by sysadmin | Jan 20, 2015 | Blog
Extremely Rare Petrified wood from Antarctica–Glossopteris- Found by the New Zealand Geological Survey Antarctic Expedition (NZGSAE) (1961-62) Mount Sirius, Antarctica. Permian period. (298 mya) 10.5 cm across… The Glossopteridales are an extinct order of...
