Sulfur with aragonite crystals Agrigento Sicily

sulfur

with aragonite

glows reddish pink under long-wave UV light

Agrigento

Province of Agrigento

Sicily

is supposedly sedimentary at the end of the Miocene

about 6 million years ago due to the evaporation of the

Mediterranean have been formed

Size: approx. 10 x 10 cm

Height about 17 cm

weight about 3360 Gr.

extinct locality

Beautiful collector's mineral with sulfur 

and pseudohexagonal aragonite 

rarely found site