| AllMinerals/JohnBetts-FineMinerals > Online Mineral Museum Photographic Archive > Minerals from Connecticut > Pyrite and Stilbite |
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| DESCRIPTION: | No. 63520 |
| Mineral: | Pyrite and Stilbite |
| Locality: | railroad cut near Thomaston Dam, Litchfield County, Connecticut |
| Description: | Lustrous yellow-metallic pyrite crystals to 1.7 mm with translucent brown bladed stilbite crystals to 10 mm in fan-shaped aggregates on gray-brown matrix. The pyrite crystals are cubic form with octahedral corner faces. Ex. Thomas A. Penney (1934-2019) collection, collected in the 1970s by a construction worker at the site |
| Overall Size: | 4x3.5x2 cm |
| Crystals: | 0.1-10.0 mm |
| Archived: | For reference only |
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