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Aragonite

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Aragonite

Classic Locality

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Description
Locality: 
Agrigento, Agrigento Province, Sicily, Italy
Size Range: 
Cabinet (10-18 cm)
Size: 
14.5 × 8 × 5.5 cm
Largest Crystal: 
2.00cm
Description

A classic and excellent specimen from a long-closed Sicily locality of lustrous, translucent, hexagonal aragonite crystals nicely set on limestone matrix. With minor native sulfur.From an early 1970s find. Beuatiful pink fluorescence.

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