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4.5" Fluorescent Aragonite With Sulfur & Stronzianite - Italy
This is a 4.5" wide aragonite, sulfur and stronzianite crystal association, collected from the Giumentaro Mine in Sicilia, Italy. What could be considered the top of the specimen, contains elongated, hexagonal aragonite crystals that display a vibrant orange fluorescence when placed under UV-lighting. Small sulfur crystal remnants can be found between these aragonite crystals. What could be considered the bottom of the specimen, is coated in a stronzianite druze.
This specimen comes with an acrylic display stand.
Morocco is well known for its abundant aragonite formations, most commonly seen as radiating clusters of clear to deep reddish prismatic hexagonal crystals known as floaters. Such mineral aggregations are called floaters because they form without attachments to walls, seemingly free-floating in the matrices they are extracted from.
Besides these floaters, Moroccan aragonite takes just about every other form of the mineral you can think of. Aragonite commonly forms stalactitic and stalagmitic formation in caves, even coating the walls and ceilings of caves in nubby formations called cave popcorn. Botryoidal, fibrous, and scalenohedral aragonite also occurs.
Besides these floaters, Moroccan aragonite takes just about every other form of the mineral you can think of. Aragonite commonly forms stalactitic and stalagmitic formation in caves, even coating the walls and ceilings of caves in nubby formations called cave popcorn. Botryoidal, fibrous, and scalenohedral aragonite also occurs.
SPECIES
Aragonite, Sulfur & Stronzianite
LOCATION
Giumentaro Mine, Caltanissetta Comune, Sicily, Italy
SIZE
4.5 x 2.4"
CATEGORY
ITEM
#62900
