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Mineral Specimens with Pyrite
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2.6 x 2.2 x 1.8 cm. An excellent and showy ball-like cluster of intergrown, lustrous, brass-yellow pyrite cubes on a bit of matrix from the famous N'Chwaning II Mine of South Africa. Very nearly pristine, with only a small amount of contacting, which is out of sight, as you can see. EXTREMELY RARE and super quality for this species and locality.
3.6 x 3.1 x 2.4 cm. A super, pristine, floater specimen of mirror-bright, striated pyritohedrons peppered with tiny crystals from the famous Huanzala Mine of Peru. Beautiful specimens, such as this, are the reason that the Huanzala Mine has arguably produced the world’s finest pyrites.
7.9 x 7.8 x 1.0 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 and front and back and has interesting edge scalloping.
3.0 x 2.7 x 2.3 cm. A SUPERB, textbook, cuboctohedral pyrite group from the Huanzala Mine. This pristine, floater specimen has outstanding brass-yellow lustre and is further evidence, that the Huanzala Mine has arguably produced the world’s finest pyrites. The striated, modified edges are extremely interesting.
13.3 x 10.9 x 5.6 cm. A dazzling combo piece from the Daye Mine! The pyrite crystal that crowns one end of the specimen is a total knockout - just stunning in its luster, form, and the way it sits up on the matrix like a jewel. On the other side of the specimen is a silky quartz crystal, wrapped with calcites and chocolate-brown hubeites. There is so much going on here - all of it pretty! Pyrite is very unusual for the locality and even more so in combination with all the other minerals there. This is a rare quality, in combination, and not just a combination if that makes sense.
4.8 x 4.5 x 3.8 cm. This is NOT your run-of-the-mill Chinese fluorite specimen! It is a complete crystal, with no contacts or damage, sitting on an incredibly well-trimmed matrix with accenting gemmy quartz crystals and pyrite. The fluorite measures just under 4 cm across the edge, so it is quite sizeable. But more importantly, it is super-gemmy, a beautiful light teal color, with an intense, sharp purple phantom inside!
5.6 x 2.1 x 1.5 cm. A very unusual specimen from South Dakota for the quartz collector, and pretty too! This is a water-clear and gemmy quartz crystal included with and wrapped by a garland of iridescent pyrite flashing red and purple hues. Ex. Tom Campbell collection.
15 x 9 x 4.5 cm. Two very attractive complex balls of Pyrite crystals set beautifully against a black shale matrix. The larger ball is about 4 cm across, and the smaller perfect sphere is 2.2 cm across. Both are composed of modified cubes, and have excellent metallic luster.
9.7 x 7.2 x 4.3 cm. Interesting and attractive cluster of Apatites coated with Pyrite, all on Quartz. The Apatites are a lovely grey-blue in color and have good luster. They are partially gemmy, but what is so unique are the Pyrites that coat two of the Apatites faces, particularly the largest 2 cm crystal. Ex. Steve Smale Collection.
5.6 x 4.0 x 2.3 cm. An extremely unique and distinctive pyrite specimen, from the pretty much unheard of locality (for minerals) of Baffin Island. Complex crystals like this came out of the locale through several collectors who worked there as mining engineers and geologists, by helicopter transport, in the late 1980s and early 90s.
10.8 x 7.2 x 3.1 cm. Look at the bizarre structure of these calcite crystals - with their outlines defined by a strip of microcrystalline, sparkly pyrite! This find, which has produced sporadically over the past year, has also produced complete rhombs and clusters of rhombs. VERY unusual!
MD-119171 - Pyrite, Pyrrhotite, Rhodochrosite, Calcite, Galena, Sphalerite - - Archived
Stari Trg Mine, Trepča complex, Trepča valley, Kosovska Mitrovica, Kosovo
small cabinet, 6.8 x 5.5 x 4.7 cm.
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6.8 x 5.5 x 4.7 cm. A VERY SHOWY and CLASSIC combination piece from the ancient and famous Stari Trg Mine at Trepca, Serbia. This pristine specimen consists of two, intersecting, rosette-like discs. The fronts are covered with the famous bright, brassy pyrite pseudomorphs after pyrrhotite crystals and are beautifully accented by: WHITE botryoidal rhodochrosite in the middle of the front rosette; lustrous and colorless nail-head calcite crystals; lustrous, gray galena cubes on both rosettes; and lustrous, black sphalerite crystals on the back rosette. The backs of both discs are covered with white, drusy quartz. This is really a neat sulfide specimen with nice association minerals from a classic locality. Ex. George Elling Collection.
8.1 x 7.4 x 7.2 cm. An astounding specimen of an otherwise common mineral - NOT common in specimens of this aesthetic appeal! This is a cluster that is complete all around, a solid knob of pyrite with crystals all the way around it.
9.3 x 5.5 x 4.8 cm. An old-time, rich ore specimen of microcrystaliized silver, acanthite and pyrite from a classic Mexican locality - the Sierra Nevada Mine, Vetagrande in Zacatecas. Ex. Harvard and George Elling Collections.
7.3 x 5.4 x 5.2 cm. A bright, beautiful piece with two prominent, cuboctahedral crystals having lustrous, brass-yellow pyrite inclusions. The crystals are just stunning in their clarity, color, and gemminess. Many of the cubocts are bi-colored, a rich green and a washed-out gray. All of the fluorites sit on a bed of lustrous, jet-black sphalerite.
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![Pyrite, Pyrrhotite, Rhodochrosite, Calcite, Galena, Sphalerite from Stari Trg Mine, Trepča complex, Trepča valley, Kosovska Mitrovica, Kosovo [db_pics/mdpics/MD-119171b.jpg]](db_pics/mdpics/MD-119171b.jpg)
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