Moving mountains for you
Switch currency

Current Live Auctions

Current Live Fixed Price Sales

Pyrite

Views:
Watches:
TBM1060097

Pyrite

Classic Locality

Description Tabs

Description
Locality: 
Falcacci Stope, Rio Mine, Rio Marina, Elba, Livorno Province, Tuscany, Italy
Class: 
Single Crystal
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
1.4 × 1 × 1.7 cm
Largest Crystal: 
1.70cm
Weight: 
10.00gr
Description

Historical very shiny complex crystallization typical of this stope .  This Pyrite  crystal have 17 mm side . The Falcacci's crystals are a complex combination of cubic with pentagonal dodecahedron and icositetrahedron forms.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Pyrite

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