1.95" Polished, Banded Aragonite Egg - Morocco

This is a beautiful polished egg that was formed from a chunk of banded aragonite, collected and polished in Morocco. This egg displays brown, tan, white and translucent bands of aragonite and likely calcite. It is accompanied with a wooden display stand for aesthetic presentation.

Note: Because these eggs are hand polished, most will not be perfectly symmetrical.

Morocco is well known for its abundant aragonite formations, most commonly seen as radiating clusters of clear to deep reddish prismatic hexagonal crystals known as floaters. Such mineral aggregations are called floaters because they form without attachments to walls, seemingly free-floating in the matrices they are extracted from.

Besides these floaters, Moroccan aragonite takes just about every other form of the mineral you can think of. Aragonite commonly forms stalactitic and stalagmitic formation in caves, even coating the walls and ceilings of caves in nubby formations called cave popcorn. Botryoidal, fibrous, and scalenohedral aragonite also occurs.
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SPECIES
Aragonite
LOCATION
Morocco
SIZE
1.95" tall
CATEGORY
ITEM
#98439