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Pyrite & Quartz

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Description
Locality: 
Madem-Lakkos Mine, Chalkidiki Prefecture, Central Macedonia, Greece
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
7.8 × 5.2 × 2.5 cm
Description

Sharp and lustrous, golden, cubic crystals of pyrite, covered with drusy quartz. The perimorphis quite impressive as you can see the outcasts where the pyrites are missing. An excellent, very old and interesting locality specimen from my personal collection.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Pyrite

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

Quartz

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

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