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...
by sysadmin | Jan 15, 2015 | Blog
Petrified wood-Dadoxylon limb with Fluorite- Chemnitz – Hilbersdorf in Saxony, Germany. 18 x 11 cm It was 1743 that David Frenzel was declared “Gemstone Inspector of the Kurfürst”. He discovered a petrified forest and had the petrified wood cut and...
by sysadmin | Jan 5, 2015 | Blog
Remondite & Astrophyllite- Mt. Saint-Hilaire, Rouville County, Quebec, Canada 6 cm x 5 cm Remondite is a very rare mineral named after Physicist Dr. Guy Rémond, physicist, Bureau de Recherches Géologiques et Minières, Orléans, France, for his work on the physics...
by sysadmin | Jan 4, 2015 | Blog
NEOLITHIC STONE BRACELET- Capsian Tradition Neolithic Sahara Desert, North Africa 8,000-3,500 years ago. 10 cm across This Neolithic bracelet was found on an exposed African Neolithic site in the Sahara Desert in Mali, Northwest Africa. Along with...
by sysadmin | Jan 2, 2015 | Blog
Gem grade Neolithic Quartz points- Sahara desert, Africa 9,000 to 4,000 years ago Neolithic points made of quartz in this quality are quite rare. The earliest blade industry in North Africa is classified as the Oranian or also known as the Ibero-Maurusian Tradition....
by sysadmin | Dec 31, 2014 | Blog
LGF 2014 Year in Review We would to say thank you to everyone who has helped make 2014 a very productive year for the LGF Foundation. 2014 was a busy year for school visits, we enjoyed going into the classrooms and seeing the students interact with our collections. ...
