Trinitite 2.30g - Trinity Test Site, White Sands, New Mexico, USA African Topaz Year Found: 1836

Year Found: 1836

This classic old collection piece has beautiful "Blanchard blue" fluorite crystals with a dreamy glow and translucent clarity

Size Category: micro mount

Caliche is a hard soil deposit that forms when calcium carbonate precipitates and binds with other soil materials

Trinitite 2.30g - Trinity Test Site, White Sands, New Mexico, USA African Topaz Year Found: 1836Formed on July 16, 1945, when desert sand melted under the intense heat of the worlds first atomic test, Trinitite is a rare historic glass. Collected in the 1940s50s before the site was closed, these preserved pieces are highly collectible relics of history. Size: 20 x 21 x 5mm Weight: 2. 30g Includes: 1. 25" Collector's box with label. History of Trinitite The detonation took place at 5: 29 a. m. on July 16, 1945, at the Trinity Site, about 35 miles