Pyrite with Chalcocite coating from Milpillas Mine, Cuitaca, Sonora, Mexico
| DESCRIPTION: | No. 75059
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| Mineral: | Pyrite with Chalcocite coating
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| Locality: | Milpillas Mine, Cuitaca, Sonora, Mexico |
| Description: | Two parallel yellow-metallic pyrite crystals with gray-metallic chalcocite surface coating in contrasting white clay-rich matrix. The pyrite crystals are cubic form with octahedral corner faces and dodecahedral edge faces. Collected in 2015. Analysis of coating performed from Ben Grguric at South Australian Museum |
| Overall Size: | 5x5x5 cm |
| Crystals: | 17-18 mm |
| Archived: | For reference only |
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