Aragonite is one of the varieties of calcium carbonate. The mineral differs from the same with it in composition by the structure of the crystal lattice and, accordingly, by properties. Aragonite crystals are found in prismatic, columnar, tabular, acicular and spear-shaped forms. They also form intergrowths of a wide variety of shapes. In addition, aragonite is a component of the mother-of-pearl layer of mollusk shells and coral exoskeleton.
On our planet, aragonite is very widespread. The largest amount of the mineral is mined on the European continent, since here it is in the highest demand. Deposits are known in the Alpine mountains, where high-quality aragonites are mined.
In addition, large deposits of stone are "hidden" in the strip of the shelf ocean zone. In the area of surf and changeable currents, aragonite intergrowths become so-called oolites (egg-shaped pebbles).
At the same time, the ability of aragonites to turn into calcites was also noticed. In order to improve the quality of the stone, stone cutters tried to heat it, but this did not lead to the desired result. On the contrary, aragonite crumbled into a fine calcite powder. This phenomenon is associated with an increase in the volume of the sample and the gradual detachment of the upper particles.
Aragonite is also known under other names, among which are: pearl mother, iron flower, sparkling or pea stone, conchit. Natural specimens of a spherical shape are called oolites or oolitic stones.
Aragonites consist of calcium carbonate, as impurities they contain magnesium, iron, zinc, lead. The crystals are colorless or white, grayish, yellowish or reddish in color with a greasy or glassy luster.
They are characterized by rhombic syngony, transparency or translucency, imperfect cleavage, conchoidal fracture. Hardness on the Mohs scale is 3.5-4. Density 2.9-3.0 g/cm3.
Aragonite, which is mined in the territory of karst caves, forms aggregates in the form of a sinter crust with protruding crystals, needle-shaped spherical formations, and aggregates of a radial-radiant shape. Sometimes spherulites are mined.
Mother-of-pearl is formed from the thinnest layer of aragonite, which alternates with a transparent layer of solid organic substances. Thus, each pearl is a kind of “layer cake”, where the filling is precisely aragonite.
Depending on the content of certain impurities in the composition of the mineral, as well as its shape, several types of aragonite are distinguished:
- Tarnovicites - characterized by hexagonal prismatic crystals of a warm brownish-purple hue. This variety of aragonite is rich in lead.
- Nicolsonites - contain zinc inclusions in their composition, are distinguished by red-brown hues interspersed with pure purple. In general, this variety is characterized by the most diverse color range of all aragonites.
- Sprudelsteins or pea stones, also known as cave pearls and onyx marble. They are formed during the processes of precipitation of calcium compounds from a natural solution, and differ in various shapes and sizes of intergrowths and drusen. It is polished sprudelsteins that are often used as jewelry inserts and material for beads and bracelets.
- “Iron Flower” is an unusual variety of a mineral in which oblong mineral formations are intertwined into bizarre “inflorescences”.
- Needle-shaped crystals are transparent prisms or elongated needles.
- Helictite is a coral-like aggregate that is common in karst caves and branches beautifully into complex structures.
- Pisolite is a rounded stone the size of a pea (about 2 mm), also known as "pearl of the caves".
Decorations and interior items made of aragonite contribute to the cessation of disputes between husband and wife. They are also able to optimize the difficult relationships that are characteristic of mother-in-law and son-in-law, daughter-in-law and mother-in-law, parents and children. Aragonite “smoothes out” all sharp corners and helps representatives of different generations to reach mutual understanding.
Aragonites also attract prosperity and prosperity to the house of their owners. It is believed that in their presence the material condition always improves.
And miraculously, aragonite helps in housekeeping for everyone who does not really like this business. The mineral adds strength, fights laziness, and gives inspiration and ingenuity to do even the most boring homework, which a person begins to do downright perfectly.
In lithotherapy, aragonite is known as a stimulant of sexual function in both sexes. The stone also has a positive effect on the state of the human nervous system, helps to get rid of fears and feelings of anxiety, enslavement, irritability and anger, and quickly restores the strength of its owner.
With the help of aragonite applications, various skin diseases are treated. And the water that has been filtered through the aragonite chips becomes healing. These sources include those located in Karlovy Vary and Baden-Baden.
A good effect of aragonites on people of mature age has been noticed. So, they help to alleviate the manifestations of menopause, reduce senile dementia.
Aragonites are used in jewelry, for making handicrafts and souvenirs, and also as a collection material. Collectors highly appreciate the "iron flowers" of aragonite and other varieties of bizarre shapes and unusual colors.
Most aragonite samples are colorless or white. If there are any impurities in the mineral, a variety of tones appear in it: from purple, blue and gray to orange, red, light green. Blue-green aragonites are called needles, blue - zeyringites.
Gems are both transparent and semi- and opaque.
Caring for aragonite and products with it should be neat and careful, since the mineral is quite fragile and deteriorates when exposed to high temperatures and frequent exposure to bright sun.
The stone goes well with any signs of the zodiac. However, he becomes a faithful assistant only for couples. Lonely people do not benefit from aragonite.
In general, prices for aragonites are not very high due to their wide distribution. For example, a polished plate weighing 100 grams is valued at about $10. And picturesque aragonite deposits, which are purchased for mineralogical collections, are estimated at 5-7 dollars. The cost of jewelry with aragonite inserts, depending on the material of the cut and the work of the master, is in the range of 40-500 dollars.
- Aragonite talismans are used to maintain family unity. It is believed that such an amulet is able to ward off a person from romantic hobbies on the side, gambling, friendly feasts, addiction to drinking and everything that can destroy a happy family life.
- The hexagonal aragonite is a symbol of the Star of David and the seal of King Solomon. In magical rites, the gem is often used to restore strength. In addition, aragonite is compared with the soul reaching out to the universe. As its direct rays are directed to the sides, so the soul during growth and development is strengthened and learns to cope with difficulties. With the help of aragonite, its owner becomes self-disciplined.
- Aragonite is an unstable phase of calcium carbonate. Over 10-100 million years, it gradually turns into calcite. In this case, the volume of the stone increases. And if a sample of aragonite is heated to 400 ° C, then this transition occurs right before our eyes, and the durable stone crumbles into a fine powder.
Calcite - aragonite group
Named after an occurrence near Molina in the historical region of Aragon (Spain), where it was first discovered. English name Aragonite.
Aragonite formula
Chemical composition
Same as calcite: calcium oxide (CaO) 56.0%, carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) 44.0%; aragonite often contains impurities of strontium (up to 5.6%), magnesium, iron, and zinc.
Crystallographic characteristic
Syngony. Rhombic (pseudohexagonal).
Symmetry class. Rhombo-bipyramidal mmm. in. from. 3L23PC. Etc. gr. Pmcn(D162h). a0 = 4.94; b0 = 7.94; c0 = 5.72. Axis ratio. 0.622:1:0.720.
Crystal structure
The aragonite structure is denser than the calcite structure. As in the calcite lattice, in the aragonite lattice each CO 3 ion is surrounded by six calcium ions.
Main forms: Main forms: prism (110), pinacoids (010)f and (001). The latter is covered with strokes parallel to the a axis. The following forms are often found: a prism (011), which sharpens the crystals like a chisel, a dipyramid (111), in some cases very sharp dipyramids in combination with prisms, as a result of which the crystals take on a spear shape
Form of being in nature
The appearance of the crystals is prismatic, often pseudohexagonal, acicular. The shape of the crystal head is chiselled.
Twins are often observed in (110). Tees of a pseudo-hexagonal shape, quadruples and complex polysynthetic twins are also common. In this case, incoming angles in the form of grooves are usually formed between the faces of the prisms. Untwinned crystals are very rare.
Aggregates. Fibrous, shelly, dense, oolitic. Aggregates are often represented by columnar, radially radiant and stellate intergrowths of individuals. It is also observed in the form of crystalline crusts, sinter, spherical forms and in masses of oolitic structure (“pea” and “caviar stones”). Cave formations sometimes found in the form of intertwined and branching "stems" of snow-white color are very original. Finally, the inner mother-of-pearl parts of most mollusk shells are built from the thinnest plates of aragonite, parallel to the surface of the shell. As you know, grains of sand or other foreign bodies that get inside the shell are covered with layers of similar carbonic lime with an admixture of organic matter, resulting in the formation of pearl nodules.
Branched (iron flowers), crusts, spherulites (pea stone); the differences refer to sprudelsteins.
Physical properties
Optical
- Color. White, gray, pale yellow, with a reddish tint, green, blue, purple, black.
- Damn. White, light grey.
- Glass luster.
- The ebb is silky, oily in the break.
- Transparency. Water-transparent, cloudy, translucent.
- Individual crystals are often clear and colorless.
In cathode rays, it glows a faint pale violet, sometimes orange.
Refractive indices
Ng = 1.686, Nm = 1.681 and Np = 1.530.
Mechanical
- Hardness. 3.5-4. Fragile.
- Density. 2.95. 2.9–3.0 (greater than that of calcite, indicating a denser packing of atoms).
- Cleavage. Imperfect on (010) and barely noticeable on (110) and (011).
- The fracture is often conchoidal.
Chemical properties
behavior in acids. Easily soluble in HCl (with active effervescence).
In acids, it decomposes with rapid release of carbon dioxide. Aragonite powder (as well as strontianite and witherite) in a solution of cobalt nitrate becomes purple upon boiling (Meigen reaction), while calcite powder almost does not change or turns bluish or greenish, and then only with long boiling.
Other properties
Unstable at normal temperature; in the presence of a solvent, it slowly transforms into calcite, which is why it is not found in older sediments. As the temperature rises to 400°C, this transition occurs rapidly. It is curious that the varieties of aragonite that have not undergone a polymorphic transformation into calcite contain larger strontium ions (up to several percent), which, according to R. J. Hayuy and N. V. Belov, obviously has a stabilizing effect on the stability of this modification. . More soluble in water than calcite.
Diagnostic signs
Similar minerals. Calcite, strontianite, celestite, barite, natrolite, topaz.
In color and behavior in HCl, it is very similar to calcite, but differs from it in the absence of cleavage along the rhombohedron and in the appearance of crystals with characteristic, sometimes thin grooves on the faces of the prism and increased hardness. Zeolites similar to it (hydrous silicates of Na, Ca, etc.) do not emit CO 2 in hydrochloric acid. Witherite and strontianite have a higher specific gravity and melt in front of the blowpipe.
Associated minerals. Siderite (iron spar), limonite, copper pyrite, gypsum, sulfur
Origin and location
It is formed in cracks and in amygdules of basalts, trachyphonolites; in hydrothermal deposits of siderite; sometimes inclusions in gypsum-bearing and clay deposits; in deposits of thermal springs (limescale sprudelstein, pea stone); in the thermal springs of Karlovy Vary; widespread throughout.
Aragonite is much rarer in nature than calcite.. As one of the lowest temperature minerals, it is quite often formed during damped hydrothermal processes. Such, for example, are his finds in fissures among serpentinized ultramafic rocks, without any connection with surface processes. The same formations include finds of small needlelike crystals of aragonite in voids, among basalts unaffected by decomposition, occasionally in marbles, lavas of volcanoes, deposits from hot, supersaturated Ca[CO 3 ] mineral springs in the form of calcareous tuff or oolites (“pea stone” Karlovy Vary springs in the Czech Republic), etc.
However, in the bulk aragonite It is formed during various exogenous processes, often with the participation of dissolved magnesian salts. In the form of radially radiant formations and sinter forms, often large, it is widely distributed in the weathering crust of ultramafic magnesian igneous rocks in association with dolomite, gypsum, clayey matter and other minerals of exogenous origin. It is observed in voids among brown iron ore in the form of overgrown small crystals and in the form of "iron flowers", for example, in the Bakal deposit (South Ural), in gypsum-bearing strata, in deposits of native sulfur, etc.
Practical use
ornamental stone
Physical research methods
Aragonite is one of the hard varieties of calcite. Calcium carbonite as an inorganic chemical compound is represented in nature not only by aragonite, but also by such minerals as calcite and vaterite.
The mineral aragonite is formed at low temperatures close enough to the earth's surface. Most often it is formed in stalactite caves. It is identical in chemical composition with calcite, but in structure they are different. Aragonite stone can be recognized by its hexagonal tees and is harder.
There are various legends about the origin of the stone. One of them says that aragonite is the tears of a girl who was separated from her lover. The girl lived in a small town in Spain called Molina de Aragon. She was not allowed to marry the man she loved, and the tears she shed became aragonite.
One of the first mentions of aragonite appeared in Torrubia's Introduction to the Natural History of Spain. Later, the geologist from Saxony Gottlob mentioned this stone in mineralogy. His erroneous assumption was that he was not in Castile, but in the ancient kingdom of Aragon. Despite the fact that the statement was extremely doubtful, they did not dissuade the geologist and the mineral got its name precisely because of the kingdom of Aragon.
Shades and properties of stone
Aragonite is called the "mother" of pearls, since it is part of it. One of the main chemical properties of this mineral is that its crystal lattice is quite unstable. Over time, it begins to transform, and the stone turns into ordinary calcite. After the discovery of this unusual property of aragonite, scientists were able to answer the question of why it is not found in the rocks of the earth's crust, which is more than 100 million years old.
The stone is considered rare. It is converted to calcite due to heat. Under the influence of high temperature, its crystal lattice passes into a stable stage, and during its life this mineral is exposed to such a negative effect at least once.
The transparency of aragonite directly depends on its color. There are unclear, translucent and slightly translucent specimens. They have a sheen that resembles iridescent silk fabric.
As for the color of aragonite, it can have a snow-white color or even be colorless. But due to various impurities, the stone can have a variety of shades. It can be purple, bluish, orange, red, gray and greenish. There is also a mineral of a blue-green color, which is called a needle, and a bluish stone - zeyringite.
Aragonite has several varieties:
- Needle crystal - a transparent long prism or needle.
- Helictite - found in karst caves, is an aggregate in the form of a kind of coral. It grows in several directions, branches spontaneously.
- Pisolite is an aragonite body that has a rounded shape. It is small in size (about 1-2 mm). It is also called cave pearls, and it belongs to oolites.
- "Iron Flower" is an incredibly attractive aggregate that randomly branches.
Aragonite deposits
To date, the main deposits of aragonite are considered to be the autonomous regions of Spain, such as Aragon, Valencia and Navarre. Aragonites from Sicily and Moroccan oolites are somewhat inferior to those of Spain. A pisolite deposit is considered to be a thermal spring located in Karlovy Vary, and collection minerals can be found on the territory of Russia (Urals). Aragonite is mined in Kyrgyzstan, Taimyr and Turkmenistan.
The magical and healing properties of the stone
Aragonite has magical properties, and numerous astrologers recommend that only family people wear it. For single men and women, an amulet with this stone can bring misfortune and make them feel lost and worthless. Aragonites are best suited as a talisman for home and family. He protects lovers from quarrels and scandals, brings happiness to their home, helps to achieve mutual understanding and peace between parents and children. For children in adolescence, aragonite makes it easier to outgrow this "difficult" age, and for mature people - a "midlife crisis".
The stone helps a person to direct his thoughts, set the right direction. He ties a man to family and home, helps to understand that there are loving relatives next to him, ready to accept him even with shortcomings.
Aragonite helps a person to concentrate his thoughts, gives patience and humility, at the right time helps to make the right, thoughtful decision.
According to Feng Shui, the apartment should have a figurine made of this mineral. She can attract money and happiness to the house. You can put the figurine in a conspicuous place, best of all in the living room. The stone contributes to the acquisition of private property or the opening of a business.
For spouses whose sex life has declined or they have not been able to conceive a child for a long time, it is advisable to install a figurine in the bedroom. Aragonite, which has strong sexual energy, will help bring back the old feelings and emotions of your beloved.
Some argue that people who wear aragonite jewelry throughout their lives retain a sound mind and a good memory until old age.
Aragonite is also used for meditation. This mineral is considered grounding and bringing peace, so it is perfect for this. The Star of David or the seal of Solomon symbolize the 6 sides of the crystal. Sometimes this mineral is used by fortune tellers to increase energy.
It has aragonite and an amazing healing effect. If the mineral is used for these purposes, then it is protected from negative effects. As a rule, they hide it in the room of a sick person or carry it everywhere with them. Aragonite helps to quickly remove the inflammatory process, fever and relieves fever. This mineral helps to relieve stress, has a beneficial effect on the human nervous system and helps fight fatigue, insomnia, irritability and anger. Aragonite is necessary for people suffering from muscle spasms, skin diseases, allergic reactions and hair loss. It helps men fight impotence, and women - with frigidity and diseases of the genital organs.
As for the zodiac signs that this mineral is suitable for, astrologers recommend that almost everyone wear it. The only important condition is that the person must be married.
The aragonite talisman should be handled with care, because at the slightest chipping on the crystal, the stone will turn into calcite and lose its healing and magical properties.
Jewelry and talismans made of aragonite
For jewelry masters, this mineral is of value and it is classified as precious. Needle splices or the so-called "iron flowers" are the most expensive. This kind of mineral can be found in Russia, in the Urals.
Aragonite is also valued in pearls, and snow-white stones are in some cases shaped like pearls. At first glance, it is almost impossible to distinguish them from real pearls.
Craftsmen make not only talismans from the mineral, but also decorate caskets, vases and other decor items with it.
It is recommended to purchase a talisman or amulet made of aragonite mainly to people who experience difficulties in relationships with their soulmate. Jewelry or amulets from this mineral are also best suited for people suffering from neurological ailments and depression.
The name of the mineral aragonite is reminiscent of one of the provinces of Spain. So it is, because for the first time the stone was discovered near the city of Molina de Aragon, which belongs to Castile. In the 15th century, this area united with Aragon and became known as Spain. The legend says that the tears of a girl separated from her loved one turned into aragonite stones.
The stone belongs to the calcite group, having the hardest structure. The popular name of aragonite - cave calcite, suggests that the main deposits are found in dolomite and gypsum caves, in places most prone to weathering. This is explained by the fact that the stone belongs to the low-temperature group.
This mineral is considered "young", as after tens of millions of years it will be converted into calcite.
When heated, aragonite turns into calcite dust. Due to such a "short" life, aragonite is a rare mineral.
The chemical formula of the stone is CaCO3.
Aragonite is a component of pearls. Each pebble consists of the thinnest layer of aragonite and a transparent interlayer of solid organic matter.
Variety of colors…
Aragonite, mined in karst caves, forms needle-like or radial incrustations. There are spherulites.
Natural specimens are colorless or white. Depending on impurities, aragonite can be cloudy, transparent and translucent. The color of the mineral has a wide range, which is added by the presence of other minerals:
- White, formed in dehydrated voids of the earth's crust, mined in Mexico;
- Orange, cave pearls are mined in Morocco;
- Blue specimens are mined in China.
Also in nature there are yellow, blue, purple, green, gray. The blue-green ones are called needles, and the blue ones are called zeiringites.
…forms
There are several natural forms of aragonite formation:
- Tarnovicite (admixture of lead) has hexagonal crystals. Color purple-brown, warm.
- Nikolsovit contains zinc. Depending on the location, it changes color from colorless to black, it can be red-brown with an admixture of purple.
- Sprudelstein otherwise, pea or caviar. This species is formed during the precipitation of calcium rocks from natural solutions. Differs in a variety of the sizes and forms. Sprudelstein is also called cave pearls, whose deposits are located in Morocco. Its polished peas are used to make beads and as inserts in jewelry.
- An iron flower is a very interesting interweaving of a bizarre form of mineral "outgrowths". There are instances resembling coral twigs.
- Unusual crystals, in the form of needles, form transparent elongated shapes. Pisolite or cave pearls have a round shape with a size of 2 mm.
- Spherical specimens are called oolites. Some marine mollusks have an aragonite coating that gives them a pearlescent sheen.
Locations of the mineral
The main deposits of aragonite are located in Europe: the best specimens are mined in Spain, Sicily and Morocco. Pisolites are found in the Czech Republic (Karlovy Vary). In Russia, there are deposits in Taimyr and the Urals.
Crystals found in South Dakota (USA), in Sicily, are of particular beauty.
Large deposits are located in the shelves at the bottom of the ocean. In the surf zone, aragonite occurs in the form of oolites (polished oval pebbles).
The magical power of the stone
Aragonite is considered a family stone. He protects home peace, smoothes out conflicts between spouses. Lonely people will be burdened by aragonite, catching up with melancholy. You can decorate your home with twigs, a box, or any aragonite craft.
For family
According to Feng Shui, an aragonite figurine attracts good luck and prosperity to the house. To do this, it is recommended to put the mineral in a prominent place. Its energy helps in acquiring a home or starting your own business.
The stone must “settle down” in the house so that the magical forces begin to work. You can arrange souvenirs in all rooms. If the stone is in the bedroom, then it helps to conceive a child and strengthen sexual relationships.
For people young and old
A pendant or amulet with aragonite will help a teenager overcome the difficulties of adolescence. For older people, it helps to preserve memory and a sober mind until old age.
The presence of a stone helps to focus attention and make the right decision with a clear head.
A good gift for newlyweds would be a talisman with a blue mineral.
Healing properties
The well-known spa in Karlovy Vary owes its usefulness, among other things, to the aragonite stone.
For skin
The springs located in this area flow through rocks enriched with this mineral. Baths relieve skin diseases, local water, passed through aragonite chips, is considered healing. The therapeutic mud of the Dead Sea also contains aragonite.
This unique quality is also used in lithotherapy (stone treatment). The stone is crushed into crumbs through which water is driven. Lotions with this liquid treat skin diseases. The stone helps to normalize the increased age-related pressure, the functioning of the cardiovascular system. The energy of the mineral effectively affects the genitourinary system, helps to endure the symptoms of menopause, and restores an erection.
For sleep
Aragonite is considered a healing stone. It helps to relieve the inflammatory process, fever. As an additional tool, it will help relieve stress.
Aragonite is a good helper for insomnia.
The mineral must be protected from the effects of negative energy. For a positive impact, it is necessary to put aragonite in the room where the patient is, or wear it as an amulet.
The ratio of the mineral to the horoscope
Aragonite does not belong to any particular zodiac sign. The positive power of the mineral affects only married couples. A talisman made of aragonite will help maintain the strength of family ties for a long time. Everything that destroys marriage: passion on the side, addiction to alcohol, gambling loses its meaning from the impact of the stone.
Application
Due to the variety of shapes and colors, aragonite is successfully used in the manufacture of jewelry. Any metal is suitable for framing, but gold, silver, platinum are more often used. Coral aragonite or iron flower is especially valued.
It is processed very little and inserted into earrings, rings, as decoration in jewelry boxes.
Beautiful beads are made from a translucent mineral. A very unusual blue aragonite, which is mined in China, is considered the most expensive. Such a mineral inspires confidence in its owner. It is inserted into rings, earrings. In China, local craftsmen carve ashtrays and caskets from zeyringite. Blue aragonite resembles turquoise in appearance, but softer.
There is another kind of stone - these are the White Sea fliers. They are valued for their unusual shape: an asterisk with 4 rays. Such specimens attract collectors as a finished souvenir.
Proper storage
A product made of aragonite will serve for a long time if you adhere to the following rules:
- Jewelry should be stored in a box with soft walls;
- Aragonite should not be allowed to come into contact with perfumes, cosmetics, chemicals;
- Remove jewelry before going to bed, going to the bathhouse, swimming pool;
- If dark spots appear, wipe with a soft cloth.
Conclusion
Aragonite stone cannot be faked, because when heated, it turns into dust. Its price is small, since the mineral deposits are extensive and located in many parts of the world. The main magical power of aragonite is aimed at strengthening the family.
Aragonite stone is a hard and brittle calcium carbonate and has the formula CaCO3. There are impurities of strontium, magnesium, ferrum, zinc, plumbum. It differs from calcium carbonate in its crystal lattice.
Description of the stone
The mineral aragonite has thermoluminescence, when heated to 400 ° C it turns into another mineral - calcite.
Physical properties of aragonite stone: fluorescence, soft glassy luster and watery cloudy transparency. It has an elongated shape. Pearls and mother-of-pearl are made up of thin layers of deposits.
The color of Aragonite depends on the impurities in its chemical composition:
- The white rock looks like ice, and is often intergrowths of needle-like crystals or sinter aggregates that have formed in completely dehydrated cavities of the earth's crust. The homeland of the white variety is Mexico.
- Orange stone occurs in the form of rounded peas with a diameter of more than 2 mm. Oolites are small representatives, pisoliths are large, up to 5 mm. Deposits of orange aragonite in Morocco.
- The most beautiful are the blue aragonites (zeiringites). Their color range varies from pale blue to deep purple; are usually sinter aggregates. Unfortunately, this variety is rarely found in nature, and a few deposits are found in China.
- Tarnovicite is one of the variations of the calcium substance, rich in lead and therefore has brown-violet colors of drusen.
- Nicholsonite, rich in zinc, brown-red in color with violet impurities.
- The "iron flower" is an interweaving of mineral formations that are usually white or milky in color and resemble corals.
The breed is mined in Spain, Germany, France, Japan, Austria, Czech Republic, Bulgaria, Turkmenistan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Romania and Slovakia. A significant amount of this carbonate is located at the bottom of the ocean shelves. There is a legend according to which aragonites are not stones, but the tears of a girl who was left without a lover. And those tears were so bitter that they turned into deposits.
magical properties
The mineral is more suitable for family people, and a lonely person will feel miserable and lost. The stone provides spouses with harmony in relationships and the health of all family members, restores strength and reduces outbursts of anger.
Blue aragonite helps to avoid conflicts, and instead preserves mutual understanding, comfort, well-being and harmony,
The magical properties of Aragonite: gives determination and concentration, strengthens willpower, gives patience and memory, and does not allow rash decisions to be made. It gives sexual energy, which helps to maintain passion in the relationship of spouses and even conceive a child, directs parents to the right upbringing.
Aragonite does not tolerate laziness, therefore, it faithfully serves both negligent, inept, and lazy owners, whom it forces to work with inspiration, desire and pleasure.
Aragonite will suit any sign of the zodiac. The talisman should be handled with extreme care, because. when damaged, the magical properties disappear irreversibly.
The healing properties of the mineral
Carbonate is characterized by medicinal properties with the following symptoms:
- prolonged fever;
- inflammatory processes;
- stress, insomnia;
- chronic fatigue;
- hair loss;
- feeling of cold in the lower extremities;
- pronounced muscle spasms;
- dermatological problems (allergies, ringworm or psoriasis);
- pain syndromes.
Aragonite is able to increase sexual activity, treats diseases of the reproductive system of both men and women, impotence and frigidity. In addition, talismans and amulets save the owner from alcoholism, drug addiction and gambling.
Application
Calcite is highly valued in the jewelry industry and is classified as precious. Not only jewelry is made from stones, but also such decor items as caskets, candelabra and simple candlesticks, ashtrays, vases. It is valued as a collection stone due to its natural variety of shapes and colors.
Sprudelstein (the second name of pink aragonite) is another valuable breed used as jewelry inserts and a suitable material for making beads, pendants, rings, earrings and bracelets. In addition, the breed has found wide application in icon embroidery. Pearls made of aragonite substance are regarded as a precious representative belonging to the first class.
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Conclusion
Aragonite is not only a stone with pronounced magical and valuable healing properties, but also a valuable decoration for jewelry. Its advantage is unpretentiousness to certain signs of the zodiac, but it must be remembered that the mineral is contraindicated for lonely people.