New Arrivals

Here we have for you a nice looking individual fragment of a Sahara Desert NWA unclassified meteorite weighing 41.6 grams. Its dimensions are 62x23x20mm. This never classified North West Africa stone was found in the Sahara desert around 2000.

It's a good quality individual fragment NWA meteorite specimen. Some weathering shows the meteorite's time spent aging in the desert. Would be a beautiful addition to any new or existing collection. Comes with a Canagem Collection specimen card.

Here we have for you a nice looking individual fragment of a Sahara Desert NWA unclassified meteorite weighing 234.5 grams. Its dimensions are 76x50x55mm. This never classified North West Africa stone was found in the Sahara desert around 2000.

It's a good quality individual fragment NWA meteorite specimen. Some weathering shows the meteorite's time spent aging in the desert. Would be a beautiful addition to any new or existing collection. Comes with a Canagem Collection specimen card.

Here we have for you a nice looking individual fragment of a Sahara Desert NWA unclassified meteorite weighing 49.5 grams. Its dimensions are 47x40x27mm. This never classified North West Africa stone was found in the Sahara desert around 2000.

It's a good quality individual fragment NWA meteorite specimen. Some weathering shows the meteorite's time spent aging in the desert. Would be a beautiful addition to any new or existing collection. Comes with a Canagem Collection specimen card.

Here we have for you a nice looking individual fragment of a Sahara Desert NWA unclassified meteorite weighing 58.7 grams. Its dimensions are 60x45x20mm. This never classified North West Africa stone was found in the Sahara desert around 2000.

It's a good quality individual fragment NWA meteorite specimen. Some weathering shows the meteorite's time spent aging in the desert. Would be a beautiful addition to any new or existing collection. Comes with a Canagem Collection specimen card.

Here we have for you a nice looking individual fragment of a Sahara Desert NWA unclassified meteorite weighing 49.4 grams. Its dimensions are 66x28x19mm. This never classified North West Africa stone was found in the Sahara desert around 2000.

It's a good quality individual fragment NWA meteorite specimen. Some weathering shows the meteorite's time spent aging in the desert. Would be a beautiful addition to any new or existing collection. Comes with a Canagem Collection specimen card.

Here we have for you a nice looking individual fragment of a Sahara Desert NWA unclassified meteorite weighing 212 grams. Its dimensions are 80x69x27mm. This never classified North West Africa stone was found in the Sahara desert around 2000.

It's a good quality individual fragment NWA meteorite specimen. Some weathering shows the meteorite's time spent aging in the desert. Would be a beautiful addition to any new or existing collection. Comes with a Canagem Collection specimen card.

Here we have for you a nice looking individual cut fragment of a Sahara Desert NWA unclassified meteorite weighing 184 grams. Its dimensions are 77x62x28mm. This never classified North West Africa stone was found in the Sahara desert around 2000.

It's a good quality individual fragment NWA meteorite specimen. Some weathering shows the meteorite's time spent aging in the desert. Would be a beautiful addition to any new or existing collection. Comes with a Canagem Collection specimen card.

This is a nicely shaped Australite Tektite weighing 0.426 gram. Australites are small, hard to find and highly desirable.

Tektites are natural glass of meteoric origin that are found between a narrow equatorial belt of 80 degrees wide. They are often referred to as being from "the moon" or "shooting stars", which they are not. A meteor/comet impact forced molten meteorite/earth up into the atmosphere where it quickly cooled and returned to the earth after their short visit to space, raining Tektites!

The name tektites comes from the greek word "tektos", which means melted. They are unusual, irregularly or at times intricately shaped piece of silica-rich glass. They have no crystal structure, and are therefore similar to obsidian but are not associated with volcanic formation process.

Tektites exhibit a number of meteoritic features, including ablation and atmospheric melting, flight orientation, some have been tied to certain strewn fields, are very different from native rocks, sometime nickel-iron is found in some and more. However, they don't have the isotopic characteristics of a long period of time in outer space and also lack the cosmic ray exposure.

At one time they where even quite common, however tons of them were used during the 80's for lapidary faceting. Metaphysical people have also long used tektites for channeling energy in various ways.

Australites are found mainly south of the 25 degree latitude line with most of them having been recovered in Western Australia. The largest Australite was found near Notting Western Australia and weighs 437 grams. Potassium-argon dating of specimens from tektites from China, Thailand, Laos and the Philippines all date about the same as Australites suggesting a single origin. However, there is evidence suggesting that Australites have a younger age and are from a different meteorite impact. Australites are also found in South Australia in soil layers about 20,000 years old, while in the Victoria in layers about 12,000 years old and sometimes in sediments as low as 5,000 years old. There is also a discrepancy in radiometric and stratigraphic test ages.

Another convincing fact is that Australites are better preserved then the other known tektites. They became known to the English settlers in the 1830's. However, the Aboriginals tribes have collected them for many years before this. Some believed they had metaphysical healing powers thought to cure wounds, sickness, and disease. Other Aboriginals utilized the tektite glass for weapons and tools.

This piece displays extremely well and is a quality translucent specimen (as show in the last two pictures, which are backlit). It has an aesthetic shape and would be a beautiful addition to any new or existing collection. Comes with a Canagem Collection specimen card and a signed Mark Bostick Collection card.

Product Type: Sapphire
Approx Weight (per piece): 1.44ct
Size: 11.2x5.4mm
Shape: Marquise Cut
Color: Lime Green
Clarity:  SI (Slightly Included)
Origin:  Africa

Product Type: Sapphire
Approx Weight (per piece): 0.6ct
Size: 5mm
Shape: Princess Cut
Color: Golden Yellow
Clarity: SI (Slightly Included)
Origin: Sri Lanka - (formerly Ceylon)

Here we have for you an incredible part slice specimen of the Northwest Africa (NWA) 2384 meteorite found in the Sahara Desert in 2004. This great collectible LL4 chondrite is characterized by abundant chondrules and nice colorful matrix. The total Mass is registered at a low 418 grams from a single stone, so this is to be considered a nice piece at 15.6 grams with dimensions of 45x36x3 mm.  The shock stage is registered at 3 and weathering grade is at 2.

This piece displays very well in a specimen Riker style mount display case; a stand will be included.. Would be a beautiful addition to any new or existing collection. Comes with a Canagem Collection specimen card.

This colorful carved gemstone sculpture, utilizing the naturally occurring maroon ruby and pale green zoisite combination, depicts a mighty lion.  The artist from Thailand has sculpted the lion in a set position providing some nice detail and optimizing the color for the shape of the sculpture.

Ruby is the second hardest stone after diamond so few artists have managed to successfully work this mineral since it requires a very advanced technique for carving and polishing.  This carving reflects the artist's hard work to show the beauty of both the stone and the subject.  A must have in your collection.

Name:  Ruby Zoisite
Specimen Size:  Cabinet-Sized  
Dimensions:  98x60x44 mm / 3.9x2.4x1.7 inches 
Weight: 302.6 grams / 10.8 ounces / 1530.5ct
Origin:  Mined in Tanzania
Treatment: None, all natural