Moving mountains for you
Switch currency

Current Live Auctions

Current Live Fixed Price Sales

Quartz & Pyrite

Views:
Watches:
PFK641225

Quartz & Pyrite

Description Tabs

Description
Locality: 
Chania, Crete, Greece
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Cabinet (10-18 cm)
Size: 
10.5 × 7 × 6.2 cm
Description

Here is a very interesting specimen from the alpine type fissures of Chania. The main quartz crystals hosts several limonitized crystals of pyrite on it. Some of the crystals are included in the quartz and kept their original form as sharp and lustrous pentagonal dodecahedrons! It is like looking at a window to the past of these pyrites and at the same time looking at how time has affected them until now.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Quartz

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

Pyrite

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

Seller Information

Payment options: offline, paypal_wpp, paypal_wps