Trinitite, The Atomic Rock - Trinitite For Sale

08/06/2026

From the Manhattan Project site:
On August 6, 1945 at 8:16 am in Hiroshima (7:16 pm August 5th on the US East Coast), after falling for 43 seconds from the B-29 Superfortress Enola Gay, the Little Boy atomic bomb detonated 1,968 feet (600 meters) above the city, 550 feet (168 meters) from the Aioi Bridge. One second later the fireball reached maximum size, 900 feet in diameter (274 meters). The mushroom cloud began to form.

As temperatures on the ground reached 7,000 degrees Fahrenheit (3871 Celsius), buildings melted and fused together, human and animal tissue vaporized. The blast wave traveled at 984 miles per hour in all directions, demolishing over two-thirds of Hiroshima’s buildings in a massive, expanding firestorm. Eighty thousand people were instantly killed or grievously wounded. Over 100,000 more would die from the bomb’s effects in the coming months.

07/11/2026

Adding new specimens in the red and Draeger sections this weekend:

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06/05/2026

Getting ready for the gem show next weekend. I will have several flats of trinitite samples. $20 each or $400/flat. I am also bringing a flat of red specimens. These are small but affordable for those who want to own a piece with the quasicrystals in it.

See us at the show at the Jacquot & Son Mining booth. 😁

05/20/2026

Another new crystal structure found in red trinitite:

We don't always get to pinpoint the exact moment the world changes.

04/28/2026

Unusual solid black trinitite found in La Paz collection.

When I purchased the last of the Lincoln La Paz collection, there were about a dozen of these black trinitites that were different than the other blacks I had seen. These pieces are still being tested, and I will post results once we get it done.

I traded a few pieces to Scott Campbell (aka, The Trinitite Man) when we were collaborating on the big 345-gram trinitite. He took these photos of a piece I traded to him. Cool stuff!

04/21/2026

Picked up this cool photo on eBay of Lincoln LaPaz testing a plate with a Geiger counter. The photo is an original from a newspaper archive from an article they were working on in 1955. I wanted it because of the piece(s) of trinitite in the bottom left of the photo. It is the only picture I have seen of him with trinitite.