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Pyrite Psm Pyrrhotite & Sphalerite

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Pyrite Psm Pyrrhotite & Sphalerite

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Description
Locality: 
Himmelfahrt Mine, Freiberg, Mittelsachsen, Saxony, Germany
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Cabinet (10-18 cm)
Size: 
7 × 11 × 6 cm
Description

An impressive sample of golden metallic lustrous hexagonal columnar crystals of pyrite pseudomrphous after Pyrrhotite on matrix of black and brown sphalerite. Often discribed in old reoports but hard to get in this times. A classic.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Pyrite

Formula: 
FeS2
Strunz: 
2.EB.05a
Crystal System: 
Isometric
Hardness: 
6.0 - 6.5

Pyrrhotite

Formula: 
Fe1-xS (x = 0 to 0.17)
Strunz: 
2.CC.10
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic
Hardness: 
3.5 - 4.0

Sphalerite

Formula: 
ZnS
Strunz: 
2.CB.05a
Crystal System: 
Isometric
Hardness: 
3.5 - 4.0

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Marco Drechsel

SPK Mittelsachsen

SWIFT/BIC-Code: WELADED1FGX

IBAN: DE49 870520004111076110