Moving mountains for you
Switch currency

Current Live Auctions

Current Live Fixed Price Sales

Pyrite On Calcite

Views:
Watches:
GND34740

Pyrite On Calcite

Description Tabs

Description
Locality: 
Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
4.5 × 3.1 × 3.4 cm
Description

Its not uncommon to find brilliant pyrite crystals on calcite in this deposit and they make for very popular specimens. This one is nice for the size and the pyrite is almost totally covering the 'dogtooth' calcite crystals. The matrix is also calcite.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Pyrite

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

Calcite

Polymorph of: 
Formula: 
CaCO3
Strunz: 
5.AB.05
Crystal System: 
Trigonal
Hardness: 
3.0
Streak: 
White
Gondwana Minerals