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This is a rare Iron ungrouped classified Taza Northwest Africa 859 specimen, in an as found state.  It weighs 3.4 grams and measures 15x10x6 mm.  

The NWA 859 was found in 2001 in Taza, Morocco.  A total weight of 75.3 kg of mostly small pieces was classified by UCLA as an Iron, ungrouped; it is one of 157 meteorites classified as such. 

This specimen displays extremely well and would be a beautiful addition to any new or existing collection. Comes in a gem jar with a Canagem Collection specimen card.

Product Type: Sapphire
Product ID: SPOR3362
Approx Weight (per piece): 0.50ct
Size: 5.5x4.5mm
Shape: Oval Cut
Color: Pumpkin Orange
Clarity: Clean
Origin: Africa

Product Type: Tourmaline
Product ID: TONG2042
Approx Weight (per piece): 1.49ct
Size: 7x5.5mm
Shape: Baguette Cut
Color: Neon Green
Clarity: Clean
Origin: Africa

Product Type: Sapphire
Approx Weight (per piece): 1.05ct 
Size: 6.3x5.9mm 
Shape: Fancy Cut 
Color:  Pink 
Clarity:  SI (Slightly Included)
Origin:  Africa

Tory Hill is a small village in Ontario, Canada that is known for its apatite crystals. Apatite is a mineral that is commonly found in igneous rocks and has a variety of colors including green, blue, yellow, and brown. The apatite crystals from Tory Hill are known for their green color and transparency. 

 Apatite is believed to possess healing properties and is associated with creativity, self-expression, and personal growth. It is thought to enhance communication skills, stimulate intellect, and promote clarity of thought.

This is a nice size specimen that will fit nicely into your collection.

Name: Apatite Crystals
Specimen Size:  Cabinet-Sized
Dimensions:  66x28x22 mm / 2.6x1.1x0.9 inches
Weight:  81.9 Grams / 2.9 Ounces
Origin: Mined in Tory Hill, Ontario

This Diopside specimen, collected in 2002, is from the Jeffrey Mine in Asbestos (now Val-des-Sources), Québec, which is a classic Canadian mineral locality. The crystals are typically green to pale green, colorless or grayish-green, and can be quite transparent and glassy. They commonly occur as slender prismatic or very flat, blade-like crystals, sometimes with strong vertical striations. Some of the Jeffrey Mine diopside is particularly attractive because the crystals are transparent and sharply formed. 

Diopside is especially interesting at Jeffrey Mine because it occurs with other well-known minerals from the locality, particularly grossular garnet, vesuvianite, prehnite and wollastonite. Diopside specimens from the mine are now increasingly difficult to obtain, since the Jeffrey Quarry is closed.

Name: Diopside 
Specimen Size:  Thumbnail-Sized
Dimensions: 27x7x5 mm / 1.1x0.3x0.2 inches
Weight:   2.8 grams / 0.1 Ounces
Origin: Mined at Jeffrey Mine, Asbestos, Québec, Canada

This is a great 145.8 gram Red Suevite Fallback Breccia from the Sääksjärvi crater in Finland. It has dimensions of 79x38x45 mm.  Although not a meteorite, impactites are directly linked to them and their impacts and are probably going to be one of the rarest collection item you'll ever own. Impactite is a slag-like glassy object found on the surface of the earth, formed from rock melted by the impact of a meteorite.

The term impactite encompasses shock-metamorphosed target rocks, melts or suevites and mixtures of the two, as well as sedimentary rocks with significant impact-derived components and shocked mineral grains, tektites, anomalous geochemical signatures, etc.

Sääksjärvi is a lake in Kokemäki, Satakunta, western Finland, east of the town of Pori. The lake is notable because it overlies an impact crater.  The crater is 5 kilometres (3 mi) in diameter and is completely buried under the lake and is not visible at the surface. The age of the impact structure is estimated to be about 543 ± 12 Ma (million years ago), at the boundary between the Ediacaran and Cambrian periods. The enormous heat and pressure at the impact explosion created an interesting melt, a Suevite, and shattered rocks and dust which fell back into the crater area becoming cemented together over the centuries.  These rock formation is known as Fallback Breccia.

These are some of the best looking breccias we've found. Would be a beautiful addition to any new or existing collection. Comes with a Canagem Collection specimen card.

This is a set of five chalcopyrite crystals displaying varying cubic formations.  Chalcopyrite is a brassy yellow copper iron sulfide mineral and the primary ore of copper worldwide. It has a metallic luster and often develops an iridescent tarnish in shades of purple, blue, and green. Chalcopyrite often forms alongside minerals like quartz, pyrite, and sphalerite.

Some believe chalcopyrite is a stone of abundance and transformation, helping to clear energy blockages and inspire creativity. Its vibrant tarnish colors are thought to symbolize change and new opportunities.

These top specimens are in very good condition and would be a beautiful addition to any new or existing collection.

Name: Chalcopyrite Crystal Cluster
Specimen Size:  Thumbnail-Sized
Dimensions: 22x21x15 - 9x8x8 mm / 0.9x0.8x0.6 - 0.3x0.3x0.3 inches
Weight: 43 Grams / 1.5 oz
Origin: Mined in Baia Sprie Mine, Maramureș County, Romania

Product Type: Ruby
Approx Weight (per piece): 1.76ct 
Size: 6.8x6.5mm 
Shape: Antique Cut
Color: Pigeon Blood Red 
Clarity: Transparent Top Crystal
Origin: Myanmar (formerly Burma)

Product Type: Sapphire
Product ID: SPWT1601
Approx Weight (per piece): 1.45ct
Size: 9.5x8mm
Shape: Maple Leaf Checkerboard Cut
Color: Purple White
Clarity: SI (Slightly Included)
Origin: Africa

This is a natural raw bi-color tourmaline crystal, it is 10mm in length and has a weight of 3.9ct. This pink and green tourmaline is transparent and has not been treated in any way. It is 100% natural.

It is believed that Tourmaline can be used to repel negativity.  It is said to enhance one's physical wellbeing by providing an increase in physical vitality, emotional stability, and intellectual acuity. 

Product Type: Tourmaline 
Specimen Size:  Thumbnail-Sized
Dimensions:  10mm
Weight:  3.9ct  
Size: 10mm  
Origin: Africa

This is a natural "Ball Peen" Mica specimen from Branchville, Connecticut.  Instead of forming flat, book-like sheets as muscovite usually does, mica specimens from the Branchville Mica Mine develop a rounded, bulbous termination resembling the rounded end of a ball-peen hammer, from which its name is derived.

The Branchville Mica Mine, which has been inactive since 1944 and is mostly flooded, is one of the most historically important mineral localities in the United States. Opened in the 1870s as a mica mine, it quickly became internationally recognized for its scientific significance after Yale University mineralogists discovered an exceptional variety of rare minerals within its pegmatite. The quarry served as the type locality for several newly identified mineral species and played a key role in advancing the study of pegmatites and mineral formation. It is especially famous for producing the distinctive "ball-peen" muscovite crystals, along with fine specimens of beryl, spodumene, and other rare minerals. 

This classic specimen from Connecticut will come protected in a Perky Box.   The box will show its age but is just another way to show how old the specimen is.  The original label when the specimen was catalogued is also a nice touch.

Name:  Mica
Specimen Size:  Miniature-Sized  
Dimensions:  33x19x16 mm / 1.3x0.7x0.6  
Weight:  10.9 Grams /  0.4 Ounces
Origin: Mined in Fillow Quarry, Branchville, Redding, Fairfield County, Connecticut, USA

This is a well-formed albite that shows very well with its white cubic shiny crystal and good luster and translucence. There Mica has grown on the side and back of the crystal. Comes mounted in a Perky display box.

Product Name: Natural Mica on Albite Crystal  
Specimen Size:  Thumbnail-Sized  
Dimensions:  25x27x22 mm / 1.0x1.1x0.9 inches Specimen  
                       35x33x33 mm / 1.4x1.3x1.3 inches Box  
Weight:  39.6 Grams / 1.4 Ounce (incl Box)   
Origin: Mined in Palermo No. 1 Mine, N. Groton, New Hampshire

This is a superb looking Spade meteorite part slice weighing 2.7 grams and measuring 19x15x3 mm. This H6 chondrite classified meteorite was found in 2000 and has a total weight of 8.86 Kg.

This single mass of 8.86 kg was found in a grass field by Mr. J. Talbert while farming. The classification and mineralogy performed by R. Jones, UNM and A. Rubin, UCLA, determined it to be an annealed impact melt rock. It has a shock stage of S2 and a moderate weathering grade of W2.

Would be a beautiful addition to any new or existing collection.  Will come with a Hupé Collection and a Canagem Collection specimen card.

This is a fabulous 21.8 gram Sericho Pallasite Main Group meteorite, it measures 36x27x20 mm.  In 2016, two brothers were searching for their camels and came across several large, dense stones west of the village of Habaswein and south of Sericho, Kenya. Though recognized as meteorites in 2016, the masses had been known to camel-herders for decades. One village elder said that as a child, he and his brothers would play on top of the stones.  It is classified as an Iron Pallasite main group with low weathering and is 1 of only 68 approved meteorites classified as such, with a recovered weight of about 2.8 T.

This piece displays extremely well and is a nice size showing great features. Would be a beautiful addition to any new or existing collection. Comes with a Canagem Collection specimen card.

This is a strand of clear crystal beads with an overall length of 40 cm (15.5 inches).  The individual beads are tube shaped and range in size from 10x4 to 15x4 mm.  In total, the bead strand contains over 72ct of crystal beads.

Product Type: Crystal Beads
Approx Weight (per Strand): 72.45ct
Bead Size: 10x4 to 15x4 mm
Strand Length: 40 cm / 15.5 inches
Shape: Tube Shape
Color: Clear White

Product Type: Titanium Sillimanite Cats Eye - 6 Piece Lot
Approx Weight (per lot):  5.2tcw
Size: 5.7-6mm
Shape: Round Cabochon
Color:  Titanium Gray
Clarity:  Transparent (Super Sharp Cats Eye)
Origin:  Orissa, India

Apophyllite is a mineral belonging to the phyllosilicate group. It is known for its distinctive crystal formations, often occurring in clusters with a unique beauty.  Its crystals are usually colorless or white, allowing them to be transparent or translucent. Although, some specimens may exhibit a greenish, yellowish, or pinkish tint due to the presence of impurities.  

Apophyllite is believed to promote self-awareness, truth, and emotional release while reducing stress, anxiety, and negative thought patterns..

Name: Apophyllite Crystal Cluster
Specimen Size:  Cabinet-Sized
Dimensions: 69x61x48 mm / 2.7x2.4x1.9 inches
Weight: 147 Grams / 5.2 ounces
Origin: Mined in Jalgaon, India

This is a great looking complete slice of the Thuathe H4-5 classified meteorite.  It weighs 2.658 grams and measures 24x16x2 mm. 

A meteorite travelling east to west exploded over Lesotho producing an elliptical strewn field extending 7.4 by 1.9 km (bearing: ~276°) on the westernmost lobe of the Thuathe (or Berea) Plateau, ~12 km east of the capital city of Maseru.

The explosion was accompanied by an extraordinarily loud, 15 s long noise which was heard over a large (100 km radius) area of Lesotho; the fall was eye-witnessed by several people who reported sightings of dust trails of “sparkling objects” over Lesotho and the southern part of the Free State Province of South Africa. Many villagers of Ha Ralimo, Boqate Ha Majara, and Boqate Ha Sofonia reported falls of stones close to themselves and onto their homes. The estimated total mass of recovered material is ~30 kg, including 418 stones in the 2 g to 2.4 kg mass range for a total of 24.673 kg which were collected and catalogued by A. Ashworth and David P. Ambrose

Most freshly cut slices from several stones show a homogeneous beige to light-grey lithology speckled with abundant and heterogeneously distributed (20% to, in exceptional cases, >50 vol%) metal particles; some are cross­cut by dark shock veinlets and show brecciated structure with light grey matrix surrounding lighter colored, well-rounded inclusions; chondrules distinctly recognizable.

Would be a beautiful addition to any new or existing collection. Comes in a protective case, and includes a Mark Bostick Collection and a Canagem® Collection specimen card.