Welcome August 2025 ! Summer is in full bloom here at Mystic. We are busy with events, shows, mining, & getting prepared for our Renaissance Faire in Shakopee Minn. It's a new exciting season. We have a new house/building to work from with more space to serve all the Faires crystal, mineral, fossil needs. Melissa & Jack have been cleaning, organizing, and setting up the booth to create a magical place for everyone to experience the Renaissance lifestyle & glorious crystals & minerals . Hope to see you there this season.

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August begins with Upper Mich. shows, and mining. Ishpeming is the 49th annual gem & mineral show. The Quincy MIne & rock swap,in Hancock Mich. and Houghton Mich., at the Copper country rock & mineral show.

The Renaissance festival opens the weekend of Aug.16th, and runs through Sept. 28th. ​

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August birthdays ~ come crack your oun geode as a birthday gift from us at Mystic. ​

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Please leave us a message if you have any concerns, questions or ideas for what you would like to see here or in the store. We thank you in advance for your support and consideration in business. As always, we hope you have an amazing month, Keep Calm and Rock On!!!

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Jack and Melissa Hoxie

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Mineral Highlight: Rectorite

Which is an interstratified clay mineral found in a variety of sedimentary environments. Rectorite also occurs in some low-temperature hydrothermal argillic alteration zones, along veins and pervasively replacing potassic feldspar. In altered bentonites; may develop from muscovite during diagenesis of shales. Rectorite, previously known as allevardite, is a clay mineral with a structure consisting of a regular interleaving of dioctahedral mica and dioctahedral smectite layers. It is a mineral which forms under low-temperature hydrothermal conditions, where it typically replaces potassic feldspar, or during by the diagenetic alteration of muscovite in altered bentonite (fine-grained clay horizons derived from volcanic dust).