Trinitite 2.01g - Trinity Test Site, White Sands, New Mexico, USA Calcite on Quartz Specimen Locality: Darwin Crater

Locality: Darwin Crater

Mex-Tex fluorite specimens like this are a rare find

graphite gray in color with a silver shimmering luster

Russian scientists discovered the impact diamonds in the 1970s but it was kept secret until the late 1990s

Primorsky Krai

Trinitite 2.01g - Trinity Test Site, White Sands, New Mexico, USA Calcite on Quartz Specimen Locality: Darwin CraterFormed 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: 25 x 15 x 5mm Weight: 2. 01g 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