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Aragonite

Size 7 x 4 x 6.5 cm, purchased from a collector in Greece

Prismatic colourless aragonite crystals to 3 mm. With a crystaline ball of calcite, and green cuprian adamite

Aragonite crystals to 3 mm

Size 10.5 x 12 cm

Origin: Hilarion Mine (Hilarion adit; Kamareza Mine 48; "Akrobates" Mine), Kamareza Mines (Christiana; Hilarion; Jean Baptiste; Serpieri), Agios Konstantinos [St Constantine] (Kamareza; Kamariza), Lavrion District, Attikí (Attica; Attika) Prefecture, Greece

Owner: Steve Rust

Photo courtesy of:

Steve Rust

Aragonite with malachite

Origin: Tsumeb, Namibia

Sample size: 9 x 6 x 4 cm

Owner: John Schneider

Photo: John and Mark Schneider

Origin: Tsumeb, Namibia

Sample size: 5 x 4 x 2 cm

Owner: John Schneider

Photo: John and Mark Schneider

Origin: Tsumeb, Namibia

Sample size: 5 x 4 x 2 cm

Owner: John Schneider

Photo: John and Mark Schneider

Photo courtesy of:

Dan Weinrich

Origin: BAB, Bau Weiler, Saarland, Germany

Sample size: 2 x 2.5 cm

Origin: Baseck, Giessen, Hessen, Germany

Sample size: 4 x 5 x 9 cm

Origin: Sasbach, Kaiserstuhl, Baden-Würtemberg, Germany

Sample size: thumbnail

Origin: Grube Churfürst Ernst, Bönkhausen, Sauerland, Germany

Sample size: 4 x 5.5 cm

Aragonite pseudomorph after glauberite

Origin: 2 miles SW of Camp Verde, Yavapai Co., Arizona, U.S.A.

Sample size: thumbnail

Photo courtesy of:

Diederik Visser

Tarnowitzite, lead-rich variety of aragonite

Origin: Tsumeb Mine, Tsumeb, Namibia

Sample size: 2.6 x 1.9 x 1.8 cm

This specimen of magnetite has a covering of small needle-like crystals of aragonite and a solid covering and as sprays

Origin: Långban, Sweden

Harry von Eckermann Collection

Sample size: 12.5 x 7 x 5 cm

This specimen comes from the upper oxidation zone. It has abundant crystals of aragonite var. tarnowitzite. Tarnowitzite is the lead rich varietal form of aragonite. The largest crystal is 2.5 cm in length.

Origin: Tsumeb Mine, Tsumeb, Namibia

Sample size: 9.7 x 7 x 7 cm

Photo courtesy of:

John Veevaert, Trinity Mineral Co

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