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Pyrite from Nanisivik, North Baffin Island, Nunavut, Canada

 
Pyrite from Nanisivik, North Baffin Island, Nunavut, Canada

DESCRIPTION:No. 37992
Mineral:Pyrite
Locality:Nanisivik, North Baffin Island, Nunavut, Canada
Description:Complex crystals of yellow metallic pyrite with crystals faces of several habits: pyritohedron, diploid, octahedral. Several partial crevices run part way into the cluster, probably casts after thin calcite crystals that dissolved away naturally.
Overall Size:28x25x14 mm
Crystals:0.5-7.0 mm
Archived: For reference only

 

 

 

 

 

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