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Aragonite

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Description
Locality: 
Shuikoushan Mine, Changning County, Hengyang, Hunan Province, China (Peoples Republic)
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Cabinet (10-18 cm)
Size: 
11.1 × 10 × 7.8 cm
Description

Glassy, light mint-green, aragonite needles form a striking diverging spray on this very rare example from this Chinese locality. This is a stunning display of aragonite crystals, very unlike anything from any other locality. A very small lot of green calcites and aragonites came out in 1999-2000. I have never seen any more, since that time.

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