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Calcite & Pyrite

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Calcite & Pyrite

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Description
Locality: 
North Mine, Broken Hill, Yancowinna County, New South Wales, Australia
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
4.9 × 3.6 × 2.3 cm
Description

A botyroidal cluster of calcite crystals is richly dusted with pyrite crystals and then sprays of translucent offwhite calcite scalahedrons spray out from the folds and crevasses between the individual calcite mounds that form the matrix of this specimen

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Calcite

Polymorph of: 
Formula: 
CaCO3
Strunz: 
5.AB.05
Crystal System: 
Trigonal
Hardness: 
3.0
Streak: 
White

Pyrite

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