pyrite

Pyrite Mineral Group: SULFIDES
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Pyrite Pyrite is know as *Fool's Gold* because it fools people into thinking it is gold. One interesting fact is that pyrite gives off a spark when struck with a hard object. Pyrite crystals have many different shapes or structures. black streak metallic, golden-yellow, brassy brittle - unlike gold heavy 5SG dull metallic luster
	Crystal faces may have parallel lines called striations.
Pyrite Concretion Dongchuan District, Kuming Prefecture, Yunnan Province, China Near perfect sphere, natural black shale and pyrite concretion formed in ancient sea floor bed.
Pyrite often forms in cubes. This specimen is a pseudomorph. It is Limonite after Pyrite. Limonite after Pyrite, Pseudomorph Albemarie Stanley Co., North Carolina, USA	Pyrite Cube Loltronos, SPAIN
Pyrite - pyritohedrons Duff Quarry, Huntsville, Ohio USA	Pyrite "Dollar" Sparta, Randolph County, Illinois, USA




	Nunavut, CANADA

Pyrite Rettigheim, Baden-Württemberg GERMANY	Pyrite Rettigheim, Baden-Württemberg GERMANY
Pyrite Concretion - China

Pyrite Concretions from Piccadilly Beach, Tea Cove Harbour, Port au Port Peninsula, Newfoundland, CANADA

These specimens were found on the beach and had weathered out of the shale.

This specimen could possibly have been marcasite. Although it was found in the same location as the other specimens, it's colour was not as brassy gold. After 9 years, it started to disintegrate - showing the "rot" that sometimes occurs with pyrite specimens.

Pyrite Crystals from Nugget Pond Gold Mine, Snooks Arm, Newfoundland, CANADA