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Calcite & Pyrite

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Calcite & Pyrite

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Locality: 
La Sirena Mine, Guanajuato, Guanajuato Municipality, Guanajuato, Mexico
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
7 × 5.5 × 3.1 cm
Description

A beautiful miniature specimen with a shell-like matrix of bright brassy crystallized pyrite hosting several sharp colorless calcite crystals to 4 cm in length. Showy!

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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