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Pyrite

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Description
Locality: 
Innergschlöss, Tauern Valley, East Tyrol, Tyrol, Austria
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
5.5 × 5.2 × 2.4 cm
Description

Exposed intergrown pyrite crystals on a chlorite-perikline-matrix. The pyrite shows a beautiful dark patina. On the backside is also a small titanite crystallized. Old found from an Alpine cleft in Innergschlöß. Floater-piece with no visible damage. Ex collection Gottlieb Obkircher.

You also get the report about Gottlieb Obkircher from our website with the photo of the piece on the first page.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Pyrite

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