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Mineral Specimens with Pyrite
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Very sharp, highly lustrous modified crystal of Pyrite. A very fine thumb. 1.9 x 1.2 x 1.1 cm
These wonderful intergrown Galenas are from a very well known locality in Ireland, Silvermines. The luster is very good, but what makes this such a great specimen are the dodecahedral modifications. Normally, the rhombal faces are square, with the hexagonal faces nowhere close to equilateral. Here, it is reversed! The hexagonal faces are virtually equilateral with the minor faces as perfect rectangles. This is such a great specimen for luster, aesthetics, and habit! 3.2 x 2.2 x 2.2 cm
This mirror bright specimen consists of interlocked cubes of 1 cm across pyrite crystals. It is an exquisite, complete floater with cityscape aesthetics, truly mesmerizing in person! 3.5 x 3.3 x 3.1 cm
A fine druse of mirror bright, iridescent, pyrite has covered this specimen nearly completely, even around the sides of the matrix shard! The most obvious area is the coating on a 2.5 cm, doubly terminated calcite crystal. This is a fine and rare occurrence from Tasmania. BRIGHTER, and BETTER IN PERSON 5.25 x 4 x 2.2 cm
Crystals of dark gray bournonite form the matrix for mirror bright, golden crystals of golden pyrite. These modified and striated crystals reach .5 cm across. The contrast in color and luster is outstanding. Very unusual locality piece! 7.5 x 5.8 x 3.3 cm
From the big find in the mid 1990’s, this specimen of limonite after pyrite, is a floater, and represents the best of that deposit. The original striations and cubic form are just superb. The color is a rich, chocolate brown, and the large, equant crystal is 4 cm across. GREAT MINIATURE! 4.2 x 3.5 x 3.3 cm
Huge rhombohedrons of calcite are coated with iridescent overgrowths of pyrite or perhaps of chalcopyrite. The largest rhomb is over 11 cm across. Just a really unusual specimen! This is a unique specimen, with really oustanding display qualities. I have seen just a few of these in the past trickle out from some (to my knowledge) unnamed and undisclosed location in Hunan Province. 24.5 x 23.7 x 8 cm
A thumber of sharp bournonite crystals with a few flashy pyrites adding a bright accent. 1.9 x 1.7 x 1.5 cm
A gorgeous old Butte rhodo specimen, with rhombs to 1.7 cm glowing pink through a druse of sparkly quartz. Tiny pyrites are sprinkled on the quartz, adding a further pretty accent. 8.0 x 4.2 x 2.4 cm
An EXCELLENT and VERY SHOWY cluster of brassy, striated pyrite cubes to 2.1 cm with a bed of sparkly, micro-crystallized chalcopyrite in the front. Some of the pyrite cubes are preferentially dusted with tiny sphalerite crystals. This aesthetic piece is from an unknown Colorado locality. Very trivial bruising to a couple of pyrite cube edges. Choice material from the Lewadny Collection. 8.8 x 6.3 x 4.5 cm
A big, showy specimen of mirror-bright cubes of galena, to 2 cm across, nestled amongst fine quartz crystals. There is also a scattering of small sphalerites, and the matrix is pyritic. Mined in Romania between 1970 and 1980. Extra shipping may apply due to size and weight. 17.7 x 10.4 x 10.3 cm
Goethite comes in a huge array of forms, almost all of them really ugly. But look at this tower of superb, sharp crystals with a dark bronze luster! It is complete all the way around, and looks like modern art! 4.8 x 3.2 x 3 cm
A very showy and excellent combination piece from Concepcion del Oro, Mexico of lustrous, striated, brass-yellow pyritohedrons with rosettes of colorless calcite crystals and gun-metal gray galena crystals on massive pyrite. Ex Marty Lewadny Collection of Winnipeg, Manitoba. 7.1 x 5.6 x 4.3 cm
A FINE Canadian pyrite, with a bar shaped crysatl not common at all! The crystals have pretty striations on their faces, and are selectively coated with a second generation of tiny, sparkly pyrites. The major crystal has an unusual flattened, rectangular shape 4.4 x 3.4 x 3.3 cm
Is this gorgeous, or WHAT? Super-bright and sparkly pyrite microcrystals cloat calcite crystals, with a later generation of calcites having grown on the earlier bed so they stick up above this golden field. This specimen was mined in Eastern Europe earlier this year. BETTER IN PERSON! 6.6 x 4.7 x 3.3 cm
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