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Limonite Psm Pyrite

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Limonite Psm Pyrite

Pseudomorph

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Description
Locality: 
Kirkeeks Treasure Mine, Nillinghoo Goldfield, Mount Victor Plumbago Station, Olary Province, South Australia, Australia
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
2.9 × 2.8 × 2.6 cm
Description

A very nice pseudomorph of limonite after pyrite. This one shows good clean cubic structyure and bevelled edges all round. Specks and stringers of gold are occasionally found inside, left behind unaltered long after the pyrite had gone.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Pyrite

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