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Pyrite Psm Pyrrhotite

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Pyrite Psm Pyrrhotite

Pseudomorph

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Description
Locality: 
Reiche Zeche Mine, Himmelfahrt Mine, Freiberg, Mittelsachsen, Saxony, Germany
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
5 × 6 × 6 cm
Description

On elongated milky quartz crystals perch single metallic lustrous hexagonal tabular crystals of pseudomorphous pyrite after pyrrhotite, beside some smaller sharp cubes of pyrite. A find from the 1990s. Some tops of quartz are broken but doesnt influence the appearence.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Pyrite

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

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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Marco Drechsel

SPK Mittelsachsen

SWIFT/BIC-Code: WELADED1FGX

IBAN: DE49 870520004111076110