Red Aragonite

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Stone

Aragonite (calcium carbonate)

Major Sources

Morocco & Spain

Treatment

Usually natural

Red aragonite is calcium carbonate, the same chemistry as calcite but with a different crystal structure, tinted brick red to reddish brown by iron and clay. It often forms six-sided twinned prisms. It's sold raw as crystals and clusters, and tumbled.