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5.5" Polished, Banded Aragonite Sphere - Morocco
This is a beautiful polished sphere of banded aragonite, collected and polished in Morocco. This sphere displays brown, tan, white and translucent bands of aragonite and likely calcite. It measures 5.5" in diameter and is accompanied with a wooden display stand for aesthetic presentation.
The sphere is nicely polished, though it's not a "perfect"sphere. There are spots of uneven polishing that can give it a slightly wonky appearance, dependent on the angle viewed.
The sphere is nicely polished, though it's not a "perfect"sphere. There are spots of uneven polishing that can give it a slightly wonky appearance, dependent on the angle viewed.
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.
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.
SPECIES
Aragonite
LOCATION
Morocco
SIZE
5.5" wide
CATEGORY
SUB CATEGORY
ITEM
#105625
