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Morocco Mineral Selenite. Paleo Morocco Tours selling Midelt Morocco selenite. We specialize in wholesale selling mineral productsand fossils of Morocco such as selenite lams , Selenite candle holders, Natural selenite and polished selenite. Our products are diverse  there are many types of selenite products, of various shapes and sizes.

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LAMPS SELENITE

Selenite of Morocco. Selenite, satin spar, and gypsum flower are four varieties of the mineral gypsum. all four varieties show obvious crystalline structure. The four "crystalline" varieties of gypsum  sometimes grouped together and called selenite. The similarity of names comes from both substances  named from the Ancient Greek word for the Moon.

CANDLE SELENITE

The etymology of selenite is through Middle English selinete, from Latin Selenite, from Greek selēnitēs (lithos). literally, stone of the moon, from selēnē (Moon). The ancients had a belief that certain transparent crystals waxed and waned with the moon. From the 15th century, "selenite" referred  to the variety of gypsum that occurs in transparent crystals or crystalline masses.

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LIGHT BOX SELENITE

Selenite crystals commonly occur as tabular, reticular, and columnar crystals, often with no imperfections. And thereby can appear water or glass-like. Many collectible selenite crystals is interesting inclusions such as, accompanying related minerals, dendrites, and fossils. In some rare instances, water was encased as a fluid inclusion when the crystal formed.

POLISHED SELENITE

Selenite crystals sometimes will also exhibit bladed rosette habit often with accompanying transparent, columnar crystals. Selenite crystals can be found both attached to a matrix or base rock. but can commonly  found as entire free-floating crystals, often in clay beds. Satin spar is almost always prismatic and fibrous in a parallel crystal habit. Satin spar often occurs in seams, some of them quite long, often attached to a matrix or base rock.

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NATURAL SELENITE

Selenite named after Greek σεληνη= "the moon". If selenite crystals show translucency, opacity. It caused by the presence of other minerals, sometimes in druse. Druse is the crust of tiny, or micro crystals that form or fuse either within or upon the surface of a rock vug, geode.

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