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Aragonite

Classic Locality

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Description
Locality: 
Bastennes, Landers, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France
Class: 
Crystal Group/Cluster
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
6.5 × 5 × 4.5 cm
Description

Aragonite from this obscure French locale is seldom available.

This nice floater of two double terminated, classic pseudo-hexagonal form, lustrous and grey to pale pink shows sharp prism faces and matte terminations.

Specimen comes with two old labels - one Dr. Maucher label, one Alex Franz label.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Aragonite

Polymorph of: 
Formula: 
CaCO3
Strunz: 
5.AB.15
Crystal System: 
Hexagonal
Hardness: 
3.5 - 4.0
Type Locality: 
Gallo river, Molina de Aragón, Guadalajara, Castile-La Mancha, Spain