June Raffle - Elements of Wonder

This month’s raffle celebrates minerals, those beautifully organized chemicals you can hold in your hand. Their color, structure, and geometry are best described by Dr. Al Pribula, our mineral curator, as “pretty chemicals with excellent manners".
Your full mineral set includes:
- Amethyst cluster — a quartz variety colored by trace iron and natural irradiation
- Fluorite obelisk — showing isometric crystal structure and vivid color zoning
- Fluorite pyramid — cut to emphasize cubic symmetry and internal banding
- Agate bookends — microcrystalline quartz with concentric banding
- Two quartz crystals — one natural point and one polished prism, both illustrating hexagonal crystal structure, conchoidal fracture, and internal growth features
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Proceeds from the raffle help us care for collections, teach mineral science, and keep natural history accessible to our community.
The winner will need to be able to pick up their prize at the Natural History Society of Maryland’s Overlea, MD, location, at a date and time mutually agreed upon. Shipping is not available unless the winner agrees to pay for shipping.
Purchase Raffle Tickets – $5
Raffle Information and Rules
1. Your ticket purchase supports NHSM.
2. For every $5 ticket you buy, your name will be entered once (i.e., $5 = one entry, $10 = two entries, etc.)
3. The cut-off date to be entered is June 3, 2026, at midnight.
4. The winner will be chosen at random and announced on the NHSM website and on social media on July 2, 2026. The winner will also be notified via email.
5. The prize is for specified items only. No substitutions.
6. NHSM officers, directors, and employees are ineligible to enter the raffle. Immediate family members of NHSM employees (defined as spouse, siblings, parents, and children) are also not eligible to enter or win. Any entry from an ineligible person is void.
7. Raffle ticket purchases do not qualify as tax-deductible contributions, per IRS Publication 526.