Clearance: Polished Aragonite Stalactite Slices & Sections - 34 Pieces

Clearance: Polished Aragonite Stalactite Slices & Sections - Pieces #288585

This is a clearance collection of 34 polished slices and sections of stalactites in a variety of shapes from round to flowery. They were formed from banded aragonite and calcite, also known as "cave popcorn", collected and polished in Morocco. The polished sides of these pieces display brown, tan, white, and translucent bands of aragonite and calcite. They also fluoresce white under short-wave UV light.

This specific kind of aragonite-calcite stalactite is often called cave popcorn since it resembles a bumpy popcorn ceiling texture in caves. It sometimes even looks like popcorn when sliced!

You will receive the exact lot pictured above.

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.

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