| AllMinerals/JohnBetts-FineMinerals > Online Mineral Museum Photographic Archive > Minerals from Mexico > Pyrite with Chalcocite coating |
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| DESCRIPTION: | No. 68622 |
| Mineral: | Pyrite with Chalcocite coating |
| Locality: | Milpillas Mine, Cuitaca, Sonora, Mexico |
| Description: | Lustrous yellow-metallic pyrite crystal perched on the top edge of contrasting with clay-rich matrix with scattered red-brown hematite microcrystals and limonite on the rear. The pyrite is cubic form, with octahedral corner faces, and diploid edge faces. Collected in 2015. Analysis of coating performed from Ben Grguric at South Australian Museum |
| Overall Size: | 8x5x3 cm |
| Crystals: | 21 mm |
| Archived: | For reference only |
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