8" Sparkly Blue Aragonite Aggregation - Wenshan Mine, China

This is a beautiful, blue-green, botryoidal aggregate of aragonite. The individual crystals that make up this specimen exhibit a wonderful sparkle and bear a velvety luster when rotated under a light source. This specimen was collected from the Wenshan zinc mines in the Yunnan Province of China.

It comes with an acrylic display stand.

Aragonite is a carbonate mineral with the chemical composition of CaCO3. It is a pseudomorph after calcite and varies in colors depending on impurities. It displays a translucent to white color when pure, and when impure can vary between yellow, green, pink, blue and brown. Typically forming in low temperature hydrothermal veins, It is also known to form in hot springs, as precipitates from chemicals in sedimentary rock, and in some cases as crystals in fossilized sea creatures.
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DETAILS
SPECIES
Aragonite
LOCATION
Wenshan Zinc Mine, Wenshan City, Yunnan, China
SIZE
8 x 3.9"
CATEGORY
ITEM
#216358