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Pyrrhotite

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Pyrrhotite

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Description
Locality: 
Santa Eulalia, Aquiles Serdán Municipality, Chihuahua, Mexico
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
6.3 × 5.8 × 5.9 cm
Description

An old-time, showy and excellent Santa Eulalia combination specimen of lustrous pyrrhotite crystals with a good patina, nestled in a field of tinted quartz crystals on massive sulfide matrix.

Specimens of this quality came out in the 1960s or 70s. Scattered damage.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Pyrrhotite

Formula: 
Fe1-xS (x = 0 to 0.17)
Strunz: 
2.CC.10
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic
Hardness: 
3.5 - 4.0
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