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Pink aragonite - Cristalljoia, 40 years of minerals
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ETYMOLOGY: The name was given in 1778 Abraham Gottlob Werner (German scientist 1749 or 1750-1817) from units that they came from Molina de Aragón (Guadalajara) thinking it belonged to the autonomous community of Aragon.
CRYSTAL SYSTEM: Orthorhombic (thick columns).
PRINCIPLE OF FORMATION: Secondary.
MINERAL CLASS: Carbonate.
CHEMICAL FORMULA, MINERAL ELEMENTS: CaCO3.
HARDNESS: 3.5 - 4 in the Mohs scale.
FIELDS: China.
MINERALOGY: Hydrothermal origin, aragonite found in cracks and crevices of the rock. It is also how conglomerate in hot springs, as well as inorganic precipitation of calcium in surface waters. Among the varieties of aragonite are their properties in this case fluorescientes pink.
MYTHOLOGY: It is said that in the region of Molina de Aragón (Guadalajara) lived two very powerful and very wealthy families and facing each other, between the daughter and the son of each of the families came as a huge love and were enemies they decided to separate, the parents of the child to see that they could not separate him from his love, killed him her suitor, the daughter to learn weeping uncontrollably and tears solidified with a single and unstable forms hardness, this is the legend It is aware of the origin of aragonite.
PROPERTIES: The roses minerals stimulate compassion, harmony the heart. The aragonite teaches patience and acceptance, discipline and practice generates energy reliability, flexibility and tolerance brings mentally, emotionally combats anger and emotional stress.
CHAKRAS: Heart.
ZODIAC SIGN: Capricorn, Sagittarius.
USES: Meditation, Collection.