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Pyrite

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Description
Locality: 
Gottes Hülfe in der Not Mine, Overberget, Kongsberg, Viken, Norway
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
3 × 2.2 × 2.3 cm
Largest Crystal: 
1.70cm
Description

A very well developped pyrite crystal is set on a light grey, fine grained matrix that is impregnated throughout with smaller, idiomorphic pyrite crystals. Specimen from the 336 m level of the Gottes Hülfe in der Noth Mine in the old Kongsberg Silver Mining District.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Pyrite

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

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