Color: White (Clear)

internal fracture along inclusion

Gold Hill Mining District (Clifton Mining District)

Tektite is interesting because of the persistent mystery that has resisted clear explanations of their creation for generations of geologists

Nuevo Mercurio Meteorite | 0.62 Grams | End Cut | H5 | Rare and Fresh Witness Fall | Zacatecas, Mexico | SO24 Heliodor Color: White (Clear)This is a great end cut of the Nuevo Mercurio meteorite. Nuevo Mercurio is classified as a Stone Olivine bronzite H5 chondrite. It fell on 15 Dec 1978 in Zacatecas, Mexico. At 1850 hrs on December 15, 1978, a bright fireball, traveling NE to SW and visible over a radius of at least 200 km, exploded over north central Mexico and scattered meteorites over an elliptical area more than 10 km in length. A total of around 300 individuals were found totaling