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Mineral Specimens with Pyrite
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5.9 x 4.2 x 3.1 cm. The rhodochrosite here has a particularly bright color to it, and the overall effect of mixed rhodochrosite and quartz with sulfides is striking. Ex. Harold Urish Collection.
3.2 x 3.1 x 2.3 cm. Sharp tetrahedrite crystals exceeding 1 cm, on classic sparkling pyrite matrix, from this defunct locale. Ex. Harold Urish Collection.
6.9 x 5.4 x 5.0 cm. This fine pyrite specimen is from the Shangbao Mine of China. The cubes have incredible, mirror-bright, brass-yellow lustre. The striking, large cube is 4.3 x 4.1 cm.
3.8 x 3.8 x 3.2 cm. A classic, beautiful, fluorite on pyrite miniature from Naica, Mexico. The glassy, limpid, pastel-green, complex, fluorite cube with stepped sides is aesthetically perched on a V-shaped cluster of highly lustrous, brass-yellow, striated, pyrite cubes. This is older material from the 1960s or 1970s from the Jaime Bird Collection.
An exceedingly rare specimen for New York I would think: a huge, floater pyrite cluster, with massive intergrown crystals with a silky golden luster. This came out of a collection labelled only as NY. From field-collector Val Collins in NY: I strongly believe that this pyrite cluster is from what we refer to as the I-88 Interstate hgwy quarry that existed for construction purposes for a year or two , back in the 1980's, near Schoharrie, New York. Clusters and nodules up to 12 inches were collected. The quarry site was backfilled and replanted as to NYS Encon requirements. However there is a second site, in a cut through Shale in the Schoharrie Creek in which mostly smaller nodule clusters to a couple of inches, are still collected to day. Much harder to get complete nodule or crystal clusters from this location. 5.4 x 3.3 x 2.8 cm
I do not bother with pyrite specimens unless they are exceptional, such as this fine little mini with a perfect, mirror-bright cube nestled amongst gemmy quartz needles. 3.9 x 2.8 x 2.5 cm
8.0 x 7.4 x 0.3 cm. These beautiful, lustrous pyrite floater "suns" formed between an ancient bed of shale and clay near Sparta, Illinois. This one is complete-all-around, front and back. The radial appearance of the pyrite is very interesting and the pyrite has a bright, chatoyant shimmer. You can see the interior shale on both sides of this specimen. Highly representative of this unusual occurrence. Ex. Carl Davis Collection.
Two mirror-bright and sharp pyrite cubes to 1.9 cm aesthetically set in a CABINET matrix of clay from the famous Spanish locality. 10.5 x 7.6 x 5.1 cm
6.3 x 5.5 x 4.0 cm. A fine, stacked cluster of mirror-bright, brass-yellow pyrite crystals from the mines at Concepcion del Oro, Mexico and the Dave Stoudt Collection. First, this is a complete-all-around specimen that is very nearly pristine. The lustrous cubes have sharp, but strange-looking cuboctahedral corner modification faces. The modified faces have stepped-growth features that add a very strange and unusual look.
Textbook, super-lustrous sphalerite crystals, complete all around and measuring to 1.7 cm across, piled up beautifully amidst bright pyrite, some of it having grown on silvery arsenopyrite crystals. 5.1 x 4.5 x 4.0 cm
9.0 x 5.2 x 4.0 cm. A fine pyrite specimen from the Shangbao Mine. Mirror-bright, very well striated, brass-yellow pyrite cubes comprise this specimen. The amazing, central, elongated cube is 3.8 cm.
An exquisite mini with long, slender, elegant quartz crystals jutting from a contrasting sphalerite matrix accented with super-bright pyrite cubes, 4.7 x 4 x 3.1 cm
Mirror-bright pyrite cubes growing one one side, with translucent, blunt-tipped, fine calcite crystals growing on the other - on a matrix of contrasting galena. 5.5 x 3.9 x 3.7 cm
4.5 x 3.9 x 3.8 cm. An excellent, complete all-around and aesthetic cluster of mirror-bright, brass-yellow, pyrite cubes from recent finds at the Shangbao Mine of China. Nearly a floater. Very highly representative of the species and locale.
3.0 x 2.3 x 1.2 cm. Boracite is a rare borate found in evaporite deposits and this rare and fine matrix specimen is from the Type Locality - the Kalkberg Hill of Lower Saxony, Germany. Sharp, translucent, greenish, orthorhombic boracite crystals to 5 mm are nicely scattered in a cluster or as isolated crystals on the anhydrite matrix. The lustrous, brass-yellow pyrite cube cluster is a nice accent. Ex. George Elling Collection. Very rare in matrix richness, quality and association with pyrite. Older material.
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