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Product Type: Tourmaline
Approx Weight (per piece): 1.9ct 
Size: 8x6mm
Shape: Oval Cut
Color: Top Forest Green
Clarity: Clean
Origin: Africa

This is a superb looking fragment of the Columbus classified meteorite weighing 3.83 grams. Its dimensions are 16x13x12 mm. This rare H5 classified meteorite was found in Luna County, New Mexico USA in 1997. The total weight of the stones recovered is recorded as a minuscule 165 grams. 

Here's what the finder, Michael Cottingham told us: "This is the Meteorite that started it all for me! My wife and I were out looking for meteorites on a dry lake bed in Southern New Mexico and I found one! This was a new meteorite discovery and it only took me 300 hours of searching to find my First One!  The COLUMBUS Meteorite was found by me in January of 1997. It was Classified by A. Rubin at UCLA as a H5 Chondrite. It was found near Columbus, Luna County, New Mexico and the Total Known Weight is ONLY 184 grams. Very Rare indeed."

This piece is part of America's history and is 1 of 228 approved meteorites from that location. Would be a beautiful addition to any new or existing collection. Comes with a Michael Cottingham Meteorites and a Canagem Collection specimen card.

This is a superb looking fragment of the Columbus classified meteorite weighing 4.57 grams. Its dimensions are 18x15x10 mm. This rare H5 classified meteorite was found in Luna County, New Mexico USA in 1997. The total weight of the stones recovered is recorded as a minuscule 165 grams. 

Here's what the finder, Michael Cottingham told us: "This is the Meteorite that started it all for me! My wife and I were out looking for meteorites on a dry lake bed in Southern New Mexico and I found one! This was a new meteorite discovery and it only took me 300 hours of searching to find my First One!  The COLUMBUS Meteorite was found by me in January of 1997. It was Classified by A. Rubin at UCLA as a H5 Chondrite. It was found near Columbus, Luna County, New Mexico and the Total Known Weight is ONLY 184 grams. Very Rare indeed."

This piece is part of America's history and is 1 of 228 approved meteorites from that location. Would be a beautiful addition to any new or existing collection. Comes with a Michael Cottingham Meteorites and a Canagem Collection specimen cards.

Product Type: Sodalite
Size: Various mm - see below for measurements of each stone
Shape: Oval Cabochon
Color: Navy Blue with Intricate White Patterns
Clarity: Opaque - Good Polish with Fine Glow
Origin: Africa

The dimensions of each cabochon are as follows:

A - 31.8 x 21.7 x 8mm | 41.9ct
B - 31.8 x 24.5 x 7.2mm | 41.5ct
C - 29 x 18.5 x 8mm | 33ct
D - 34.8 x 24.7 x 8.8mm | 57.2ct
E - 32.6 x 22.2 x 9.5mm | 56.2

Gyrolite often forms nodular aggregates that can appear glassy, dull or even fiberous. The aggregate nodules often accompany many fine and rare minerals such as Apophyllite and Okenite plus many of the Zeolites. Looks very nice on Prehnite! 

Prehnite can form prismatic, tabular, or pyramidal crystals, but usually occurs in botryoidal, reniform, stalactitic, granular, or compact habits.  It is usually green in colour, but may be white, colourless, yellow, or gray.  It has a colourless streak.  Prehnite is transparent to translucent, with a vitreous to pearly luster.  Prehnite forms in cavities in basaltic lavas.

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.  Apophyllite 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 have a calming effect, and to effectively reduce stress, releasing mental blockages and negative thought patterns. Apophyllite is also said to release suppressed emotion, to overcome anxiety, worries and fears. It calms apprehensions and allows uncertainty to be tolerated.

Prehnite is said to be a stone of unconditional love and the crystal to heal the healer. Placing it in the garden is believed to help make a home into a healing sanctuary and teach one how to be in harmony with nature. A good Fung Shui stone, prehnite is said to be helpful for decluttering, helping one let go of possessions no longer needed.

Name: Gyrolite and Apophyllite on Prehnite
Specimen Size:  Cabinet-Sized
Dimensions: 74x64x28 mm / 2.6x2.3x1 inches
Weight: 85 Grams / 3 Ounces
Origin: Mined in Mumbai (Bombay), India

This is a beautiful piece of facet grade rough Orthoclase.  Orthoclase is a feldspar mineral commonly found in igneous rocks like granite. It forms prismatic crystals with a variety of colors including white, cream, pink, pale yellow and pale green.

Orthoclase is often associated with mental clarity, inner strength, and balancing energy. Some believe it helps promote cooperation and understanding in relationships and aids in organizing thoughts or achieving goals. Its connection to the third eye and solar plexus chakras is said to support personal insight and self-confidence.

Product Type: Orthoclase (Rough)
Approx Weight (per piece): 21.07ct
Size: 22x13mm
Shape: Rough Shape
Color: Green
Clarity: Facet Grade
Origin: Africa
Treatment:  None

Here we have for you a superb looking Dhofar 020 classified meteorite weighing 67 grams. Its dimensions are 57x37x32 mm.  Found 10 March 2000 in Dhofar, Oman, in the Arabian Peninsula this H4/5 classified chondrite has a TKW of 256 Kg with a shock stage of S4 and weathering grade of W3 by the Russian Academy of Sciences, USSR.

The following is an excerpt from Mark Bostick's review of this meteorite:  "Dhofar 020 is a ordinary stone chondrite meteorite. The meteorite is high in free metal and therefore falls in the H class. S4 tells it is highly shocked. Slices of the meteorite, show veins of the cosmic impact created mineral Ringwoodite, although fractures in the stone tend to hide this some. It almost appears to me to have splinted upon impact. The meteorite falls in 4-5 petrology class, a reference to how metamorphed the meteorite is from its original state. This is judged by studying a thin section of the meteorite, most visually at the chondrules, a feature unique to stone meteorite. In a thin section under polarized light, pyroxene chondrules seem more common then their olivine pair. Still some regions in the meteorite show scattered patches of bright olivine inclusions. These are fairly rare, at least on my thin section, and most of the meteorite's olivine and pyroxene, some of the easier things to see in a thin section, appear to have went through a metamorphism, and have "melted" into the matrix and are at times undistinguishable."

This piece displays extremely well showing a beautiful crust, superb shape and good size. Would be a beautiful addition to any new or existing collection. Comes with a Canagem Collection specimen card.

This is a great looking Bilanga classified meteorite specimen weighing 4.68 grams with  dimensions of 22x17x10 mm.  This Achondrite Diogenite classified meteorite was observed falling in 1999 in Gnagna, Burkina Faso and is 1 of only 240 approved meteorites classified as such. The total weight of the pieces recovered is recorded as 25 kilograms.

This piece is a very desirable type of material and a great specimen all around. The specimen comes in a protective display case with label. Would be a beautiful addition to any new or existing collection. Comes with a Canagem Collection specimen card plus one from origin.

Prehnite can form prismatic, tabular, or pyramidal crystals, but usually occurs in botryoidal, reniform, stalactitic, granular, or compact habits.  It is usually green in colour, but may be white, colourless, yellow, or gray.  It has a colourless streak.  Prehnite is transparent to translucent, with a vitreous to pearly luster.  It forms in cavities in basaltic lavas.

Prehnite is said to be a stone of unconditional love and the crystal to heal the healer. Placing it in the garden is believed to help make a home into a healing sanctuary and teach one how to be in harmony with nature. A good Fung Shui stone, prehnite is said to be helpful for decluttering, helping one let go of possessions no longer needed.

Name: Prehnite Crystal Cluster
Specimen Size:  Cabinet-Sized
Dimensions: 75x40x29 mm / 2.9x1.6x1.1 inches
Weight: 94 Grams / 3.3 Ounces
Origin: Mined in Mumbai (Bombay), India

Anapaite is a relatively rare mineral that belongs to the apatite group. It is named after the town of Anapa in Russia, where it was first discovered. This mineral is typically found in sedimentary environments, often associated with phosphatic nodules, clay deposits, and organic-rich sediments.  This particular specimen shows greenish Anapaite crystals lining a clay septarian.

Name: Anapaite Crystal Cluster
Specimen Size:  Miniature-Sized
Dimensions: 37x25x19 mm / 1.5x1x0.7 inches
Weight: 18.6 Grams / 0.7 ounces
Origin: Mined in Bellver de Cerdanya, Lleida, Catalonia, Spain

Product Type: Tourmaline
Product ID: TOGG8458
Approx Weight (per piece):  5.61ct
Size: 12.9x10.3mm
Shape: Oval Cut
Color: Green
Clarity: Clean
Origin: Africa

Here we have for you a nice looking end cut of a Sahara Desert NWA unclassified meteorite weighing 147.64 grams. Its dimensions are 41x38x49mm. This never classified North West Africa stone was found in the Sahara desert around 2000.

It's a good quality cut NWA meteorite specimens showing interesting internal structure (L5?) and somewhat attractive with a mottled interior with chondrules and metallic flakes. Some weathering shows the meteorite's time spent aging in the desert. Displays nicely with a ground and rough polished without a mirror finish.

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 37 cm (14.5 inches).  The individual beads are faceted tube in shape and range in size from 8x5 to 9x5 mm.  In total, the bead strand contains over 62ct of crystal beads.

Product Type: Crystal Beads
Approx Weight (per Strand): 62.6ct
Bead Size: 8x5 to 9x5 mm
Strand Length: 37 cm / 14.5 inches
Shape: Faceted Tube Shape
Color: Clear White

Product Type: Tourmaline
Approx Weight (per piece): 3.72ct
Size: 16.6x6x3.9mm
Shape: Baguette Cut
Color: Green
Clarity: VVSI 
Origin: Nigeria, Africa

Product Type: Tourmaline
Approx Weight (per piece): 1.79ct 
Size: 8x6mm 
Shape: Octagon Cut
Color: Green & light Pink
Clarity:  Clean
Origin:  Africa

This is a great 50.7 gram Impact Melt Breccia from the Sääksjärvi crater in Finland. It is amazingly light considering its mass of 54x42x25 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. There are impactite rocks in the southwestern region from the crater confirming its extraterrestrial origin. At the time of its discovery, only one impact crater (Lappajärvi) was known in Finland.  

Would be a beautiful addition to any new or existing collection. Comes with a Canagem Collection specimen card.

Here we have for you a superb looking Dhofar 020 classified meteorite weighing 49.8 grams. Its dimensions are 68x32x20 mm.  Found 10 March 2000 in Dhofar, Oman, in the Arabian Peninsula this H4/5 classified chondrite has a TKW of 256 Kg with a shock stage of S4 and weathering grade of W3 by the Russian Academy of Sciences, USSR.

The following is an excerpt from Mark Bostick's review of this meteorite:  "Dhofar 020 is a ordinary stone chondrite meteorite. The meteorite is high in free metal and therefore falls in the H class. S4 tells it is highly shocked. Slices of the meteorite, show veins of the cosmic impact created mineral Ringwoodite, although fractures in the stone tend to hide this some. It almost appears to me to have splinted upon impact. The meteorite falls in 4-5 petrology class, a reference to how metamorphed the meteorite is from its original state. This is judged by studying a thin section of the meteorite, most visually at the chondrules, a feature unique to stone meteorite. In a thin section under polarized light, pyroxene chondrules seem more common then their olivine pair. Still some regions in the meteorite show scattered patches of bright olivine inclusions. These are fairly rare, at least on my thin section, and most of the meteorite's olivine and pyroxene, some of the easier things to see in a thin section, appear to have went through a metamorphism, and have "melted" into the matrix and are at times undistinguishable."

This piece displays extremely well showing a beautiful crust, superb shape and good size. Would be a beautiful addition to any new or existing collection. Comes with a Canagem Collection specimen card.

This is a strand of multicolor Moonstone beads with an overall length of 38 cm (15 inches).  The individual gemstone beads are rectangular in shape and range in size from 6-9x4.5-5 mm.  In total, the bead strand contains over 77ct of natural Moonstone beads.

Type: Moonstone Beads
Approx Weight (per Strand): 77ct
Bead Size: 6-9 x 4.5-5 mm
Strand Length: 35 cm / 13.75 inches
Shape: Rectangle
Color: Multi Color

Product Type: Body Jewelry
Product ID: SS0246
Gem Type:  Aquamarine Crystal
Metal Type: Surgical Steel and Silver
Weight: Silver and crystal 5.00 Grams TW
Number of Gems: 0 Piece(s), 0 CT
Size: 10 mm, 14 Gauge
Shape: Round Diamond Cut
Color: Intense Rich Blue
Clarity: Clean
Origin: Hand made in Thailand

The NWA 267 meteorite fragment offered here is in as found condition.  It weighs 16.6 grams, with dimensions of 28x27x22mm.  The meteorite will come with two specimen description cards including a signed "The Mark Bostick Collection" card.

This meteorite was once a pile of weathered unclassified meteorite fragments brought to the 2000 Denver show by a Moroccan fossil dealer. These fragments, 73.9 kg. worth, where purchased by Canadian meteorite dealer Dean Bessey, who was told the following on the meteorites: "A nomad found an area with a lot of unusual strange stones near the Morocco/Algeria border. He brought one to a fossil dealer and asked: "I hear that you will pay money for stones like this". After shaking his head in disbelief at a positive response, the nomad gathered up all his camels, wives and children and brought them into the desert to search over his personal strewn field." Or at least that is how the story goes.

Many thousands of stones, 73.9 kilograms, were recovered, most of these fragments under 20 grams. Then 356 grams and a thin section of the meteorite was donated to the Vernadaky Institute of Geochemistry and Analytical Chemistry, part of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, where it was classified by M. Ivanova. This meteorite, an ordinary stone chondrite, H4 class has a Shock Rating of 2 and a Weathering Grade of 2-3 and the classification information was published in Meteoritical Bulletin 85.

While the stone did not get a heavy weathering grade, very few specimens show any crust. This meteorite is believed to have come from the Hebe class asteroids. I've included an informational photo of a NWA 267 Meteorite thin section which are used in earth geology, and in meteorites to identify the minerals in them. The photo shows a large imperfect elongated chondrule. Chondrules are unique features to meteorites. The chondrule shown is composed of mostly pyroxene and the bright colored minerals scattered throughout the thin section is mostly olivine.

One of the fun facts is that the NWA 267 was also the first meteorite ever minted onto a real legal tender coin. The National Bank of Liberia made 999 of these $10.00 Silver coins in 2004. The meteorite used in the coin, was supplied by Mark Bostick himself and his name and signature came on the certificate with the coin. The provided images of the coin shows a nomad on a camel on the obverse. A meteorite is falling through the star filled sky in the background. Reverse of coin has a seal of the Liberia Government and notes its value. We include 2 specimen cards but unfortunately the thin section and coin used in the ad are NOT included!