MELIKARIA
 We first saw these strange-looking specimens (also spelled "melicaria")
at a show last fall, a new find from Mexico. From what little information that
was available, it seems they are "a quartz cast after the crack-filling of
a septarian nodule or possibly after a similar crack-filling spherulite,"
according to former Smithsonian curator John S. White. In the write-up, we would
endeavor to give a full explanation of this strange phenomenon.
It looks like we are not going to be able to get enough specimens to be able
to feature this new find, we're sorry to say. We're going to try for a little
longer, and if we can't, we'll make available what we do have on one of our
Offer Sheets.
Thanks!
Richard & Cheryl
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