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Pyrite

Classic Locality

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Description
Locality: 
Bösingfeld Quarry, Bösingfeld, Detmold, North Rhine - Westphalia, Germany
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
7 × 5 × 4 cm
Description

A fine, 4 x 4 cm  group of sharp striated pyrite crystals on marl matrix.

The pyrite is typical for the locality coverd by a thin layer of brown-red limonite.

Such fine pyritegroups on matrix are rare from this classic german locality.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Pyrite

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

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