Crystal and Mineral Display Specimen Collection

An irregular, uncut specimen. 2.72 grams, 15 mm



Found Carancas, Chucuito, Puno, Peru. Ex Aerolite Meteorites. From the private collection of a Leicestershire, UK, gentleman. Accompanied by an Aerolite Meteorites dealer card, photograph of the impact crater, and set in a Swiss membrane box.

In the afternoon of September 15 2007, at 4.45pm UTC, the small town of Carancas in Provincia Chucuito, Peru, was shaken by an enormous detonation. Eye witnesses described a smoke trail that had descended from the sky and had exploded on contact with the ground, breaking windows and the debris causing damage on the buildings. A mushroom-shaped explosion cloud was seen rising from the impact site and was visible for several minutes above the 13.8 meter crater.

A mixed group comprising, quartz, labradorite, sodalite, ruby in zoisite, turquoise, azurite, almandine garnet crystal, and fluorite. 370 grams total, 25-65 mm



Property of a North West London, UK, lady.

Restrung using recently polished Mammuthus primigenius bone beads. 170 grams, 62 cm



Acquired on the UK art market before 2000. Property of an Essex, UK, gentleman.

The mammoth lineage branched from the Asian elephant around 6 million years ago, and later on the Woolly Mammoth, Mammuthus primigenius, evolved in eastern Siberia. Woolly mammoths, being slightly smaller than living African elephants, were foragers and ate grass, as well as small, nutritious flowering plants that flourished in the environment where they lived. They may also have used their curved tusks to dig through snow and eat plants that other foragers were unable to reach.