Trinitite 1.04g - Trinity Test Site, White Sands, New Mexico, USA Fluorite specimen • Weight: 86g• Category size:

• Weight: 86g• Category size: Miniature• Includes: Specimen ID label

Mineral: Smoky Quartz with Hematite inclusions

exposed to the environment and elements for thousands of years can develop a bronze desert patina

Size: 35 x 15 x 9mm

Collector’s Note:This crystallized fossil wood formed in the Late Triassic

Trinitite 1.04g - Trinity Test Site, White Sands, New Mexico, USA Fluorite specimen • Weight: 86g• Category size:Formed 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: 16 x 10 x 5mm Weight: 1. 04g 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