Ighoud is also spelled Irhoud. In 1960 barite miners working the limestone massif there turned up a skull. Dating work published in 2017 established what it was: Homo sapiens, roughly 300,000 years old, the oldest of our species found anywhere.
This aragonite comes from the same limestone massif, out of the karst cavities the barite workings cut into. The mineral and the fossils are not the same deposit and this piece carries no fossil material. It shares a place, not a horizon.
Carbonates are soft. Keep it dry and dust rather than wash.
Mineral: Aragonite (calcium carbonate, CaCO₃)
Crystal system: Orthorhombic
Origin: Ighoud (Irhoud), Youssoufia Province, Morocco
Hardness: 3.5 to 4 on the Mohs scale, soft and easily marked
Treatment: Cut and polished, no dye or heat
Dimensions: 8.34 x 8.69 x 1.35 cm
Weight: 141.08 g
You will receive the exact piece photographed.