| AllMinerals/JohnBetts-FineMinerals > Online Mineral Museum Photographic Archive > Minerals from Connecticut > Pyrite on Quartz |
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| DESCRIPTION: | No. 56262 |
| Mineral: | Pyrite on Quartz |
| Locality: | railroad cut near Thomaston Dam, Litchfield County, Connecticut |
| Description: | Many lustrous yellow-metallic pyrite crystals in spherical aggregates to 4 mm diameter on lustrous transparent colorless quartz crystals to 2.5 mm with black microcrystals of an unidentified mineral, possibly goethite or sphalerite or both. Ex. Thomas A. Penney (1934-2019) collection, collected in the 1970s. |
| Overall Size: | 11x6x3 cm |
| Crystals: | micro to 2.5 mm |
| Archived: | For reference only |
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