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On December 15, 1978, a brilliant fireball was visible over a radius of nearly 350 miles as it streaked across the sky over Mexico.  This huge bolide produced a shower of H5 chondrite meteorites which rained down over a stretch of land extending approx. 50 miles.   Nuevo Mercurio is a classic Mexican fall with a characteristic light colored matrix with metal flecks. 

Refer to the photo.  Your specimen will consist of one large or a group of small fragments selected from the larger lot shown in the photo. (some of these fragments have black crust) The black centimeter cube is shown for scale and is not included.  Your purchase will include a labelled gemjar for safe storage.

From the Meteoritical Bulletin entry on Nuevo Mercurio :

Name: NUEVO MERCURIO

Place of fall: About 10 km N. of the village of Nuevo Mercurio, Zacatecas, Mexico, 250 km SW. of Monterrey.

24.30°N., 102.13°W., coordinates of the centre of the strewn-field.

Date of fall: December 15, 1978, 1850 hrs.

Class and type: Stone. Olivine-bronzite chondrite (H5). Olivine Fa17.3.

Number of individual

specimens: More than 300.

Total weight: Not known, over 5 kg recovered to date.

Circumstances of fall: A bright fireball, traveling NE. to SW. and visible over a radius of at least 200 km, exploded over north-central Mexico and scattered meteorites over an elliptical area more than 10 km in length.

Source: Prof. R. Trevino, Escobedo 336 Sur, Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, Mexico. See also K. Fredriksson et al., 1979. The Nuevo Mercurio, Mexico, chondrite. Meteoritics 14, abs.