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Pyrrhotite With Quartz

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Pyrrhotite With Quartz

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Description
Locality: 
Dalnegorsk, Primorskiy Kray, Russian Federation
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Cabinet (10-18 cm)
Size: 
10.5 × 4.5 × 5.5 cm
Weight: 
196.00gr
Description

This is a very attractive and well balanced pyrrhotite specimen from Dalnegorsk: Beautiful clusters of bronze-brownish stacked hexagonal Pyrrhotite crystals, on one side overgrown with microcrystals of siderite, associated with quartz.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Pyrrhotite

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

Quartz

Formula: 
SiO2
Strunz: 
4.DA.05
Crystal System: 
Trigonal
Hardness: 
7.0
Streak: 
White

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