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Covered my scrap table in rocks, boxes, wrapping, adhesives, balsa wood, saws, sharpies, exacto knives, card stock for labels, magnifier, etc. I got two of each type specimen so each kiddo gets one.

Tiny specimens go into small once inch or 3/4 inch plastic boxes, I cut black cardstock for the bottom f the box, adhere it with sticky tac, paint a tiny piece of balsa wood with sharpie, glue it to the black cs, let it dry, the put a tiny drop of glue on the tip of the blasa wood and adhere the mineral specimen to it. These are really too delicate for a four year old but I want them to have them as they are from closed locations and there will probably never be an opportunity to get more pieces again. Their mom can put them up for them for when they get a bit older. Since they are small they need magnifying to see them well. This is the same process I do my micromounts. Micromounts are the ones I use my microscope on to see using 40X. Most often since they are so tiny they have perfect crystalline form as they have not had any outside inference with their growth.

Once of the tiny crystal I am giving is from a location in Austin TX that is a closed site. It is called celestite, it features a transparent colorless dogtooth-shaped, sharp crystal with a bight blue tip, very pretty. My late mentor collected it. Another is a bight beautiful feather-shaped copper specimen from Copper Harbor, Houghton CO., Michigan. Lovely! Others are lab-grown iridescent bismuth that grows in stair-step hopper-shaped crystals. Fun times.


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