Aragonite

  

Large, light blue or white hexagonal twinned crystals to over 1 cm long by 9mm wide set off nicely by a sulfur matrix.

Origin: Girgento, Sicily, Italy
Eaton Collection

Sample size: 8 x 6 x 5 cm

 

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Dakota Matrix Minerals

 

  

 

  

Origin: Northern Lights Mine, nr. Yerrington, Mineral Co., Nevada, USA

Sample size: 7.5 x 5.6 x 4.5 cm (top), 7.2 x 6 x 4.5 cm (bottom)

 

Photo courtesy of: 

John Veevaert, Trinity Mineral Co

Trinityminerals.com

 

Origin: Remouchamps, Belgium

Sample size: 3.5 x 4.5 cm

 

Photo courtesy of: 

Diederik Visser

Diederik Visser Minerals & Petrological Services

 

 

Variety Tarnowitzite

Origin: Tsumeb, Namibia

Ex Sussman Collection

Photo: John Schneider

Sample size: 8 x 6 x 6 cm (top), 8 x 4.5 x 1.5 cm (bottom)

 

  

  

Origin: Bilin, Czech Republic

Sample size: 2.6 Xx 1.6 x 1 cm

 

  

Tarnowitzite, lead variety of aragonite

Origin: Tsumeb, Namibia

ex. Metzger, Schwethelm Collections

Sample size: 7.5 x 5 x 4 cm

 

  

Origin: Molina de Aragon, Spain (type locality)

Sample size: 4.6 x 4.6 x 3.9 cm

 

  

  

"Floss feri" or cave aragonite

Origin: Styria, Austria

Ex. Seaman Museum collection

Sample size: 5.5 x 5.2 x 4.0 cm

 

  

 

  

Origin: Northern Lights Mine, Mineral Co., Nevada, U.S.A.

Sample size: 5.3 x 4.0 x 3.0 cm (top), 3.8 x 3.5 x 3.2 cm (2nd/bottom row)

 

Photo courtesy of: 

Rob Lavinsky

The Arkenstone

 

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