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5.8" Polished, Banded Aragonite Egg (Cut Base) - 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. The base of it has been cut flat, allowing for vertical presentation without the need for a display stand.
Note: Because these eggs are hand polished, most will not be perfectly symmetrical.
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.
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
5.8" tall, 3.4" wide
CATEGORY
SUB CATEGORY
ITEM
#161253
