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Pyrite & Calcite

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Pyrite & Calcite

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Description
Locality: 
Mount Cleveland Mine, Luina, Heazlewood, Waratah-Wynyard Municipality, Tasmania, Australia
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
4.5 × 6.2 × 4.3 cm
Description

Flattened rhombs of calcite has been prefentially coated with pyrite and then partly encased with more calcite.

This material was collected some thirty years agao at the now defunct Mount Cleveland Tin Mine

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Pyrite

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

Calcite

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