ARA3353 Price: $70
ARAGONITE
Bisbee
Warren District
Cochise County, Arizona, USA
Large Cabinet (14.7 x 8.4 x 6.7 cm)
This specimen consists of a base of flos-ferri type aragonite, followed by transparent drusy aragonite, and topped with sharp tan prismatic aragonite crystals to 2.5 cm long. The tan prismatic crystals fluoresce yellow in longwave UV light, and the uppermost portion of the prismatic crystals fluoresces bright green under shortwave UV light (see photos below). For more information about Bisbee minerals and mining history, see the special Bisbee issue of the Mineralogical Record, Volume 12, Number 5 (September – October, 1981), and Volume 24, Number 6 (November – December, 1993), pages 421-436.
Specimen under Longwave UV light
Specimen under Shortwave UV light
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