132g Botryoidal Blue Aragonite Specimen 4B

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This piece weighs 132g and measures 8cm x 5.5cm x 3cm.

This material is Blue Aragonite/Caribbean Calcite, (which is only a trade name and not a different material). The material is from the Duddar mine vicinity, which is Pakistan's largest underground facility for the extraction of Lead and Zinc, located in the mineral-rich Kanraj Tehsil of Lasbela District in southeastern Balochistan. The Duddar mine is known for Blue Smothsonite specimens adding to the confusion in identifying this particular material that has a vibrant colour due to the high level of Zinc present during formation, but it is Aragonite/Calcite.

I secured a large quantity of this very high quality material quite some time ago mostly with intense blue tones but a few nice unusual green pieces. There are also two distinct formation styles which unfortunately leads to visual confusion and with intentional or unintentional mislabeling of this material as Smithsonite or Hemimorphite. hemimorphite being is a Zinc Silicate, Smithsonite is a Zinc Carbonate and Blue Aragonite/Calcite are both Calcium Carbonates.

Calcium carbonate forms as both Aragonite and Calcite, and these two minerals only differ in their crystallisation. Calcite is the stable form, whereas aragonite is metastable: Over time, or when heated, it can ultimately transform into calcite. Aragonite was named by Abrahan Gottlieb Werner after Molina de Aragón, Spain, the locality where this mineral was first described.

Calcite, the more common mineral, forms in trigonal crystals, whereas Aragonite forms orthorhombic crystals. Calcium carbonate usually crystallizes as calcite, but surprisingly, it forms aragonite in seawater. While scientists have known that different concentrations of magnesium in the surrounding water affect the fate of calcium carbonate, they have had no explanation for this. The true identity of microcrystalline forms of Aragonite or Calcite may also not be known without complex testing, and this can also cause a confusion between these species.

Aragonite is the main component of many organic substances, such as pearl and coral. The iridescent surface of pearl and mother of pearl is actually a layer of Aragonite secreted by molluscs and related invertebrates.

As well as sharing the same transformative and chakra balancing properties as normal Aragonite, Blue Aragonite helps one calm and soothe their emotional body. Blue Aragonite is a third eye, throat and heart chakra stone, with a comforting, optimistic and joyful vibration.\n\nIt enhances your ability to communicate, particularly spiritually and aids you to more easily empathize, so is an asset to healers and spiritual teachers. One becomes more open with themselves and their “hidden” emotions, slowly overtime releasing these weights to the surface to be faced. Blue Aragonite is a very special stone that is here to soften emotional transitions. This could stem from traumatic events that we refuse to deal with, to mourning the loss of someone and not being able to cope with grief, as well as just having trouble getting over a recent falling out in a serious relationship. This stone will become your best friend in times of need as it will “soften” even the most hurtful emotions and events we relive day in and day out. Working with or carrying this stone daily will provide ones aura with powerful vibrations that can even be felt by the ones closest to us.

Blue Aragonite has a special relationship when it comes to the throat chakra. It helps communicate emotional pain and struggle we refuse to confront. This stone pushes us to vocalize our feelings when in times of discomfort, as one may normally just shell up and stay quiet. By all means this is not an aggressive vocalizing stone, and is purely here to help in vocalizing ones emotional pain. So often do we hold on to pain because we refuse to even communicate about it to the ones closest to us. Blue Aragonite will passively push you to speak up about yourself and stand up for your emotions. Something as little as using different words with a different tone can change the outcome of any discussion or confrontation.