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Pyrrhotite

Pyrrhotite

Pyrrhotite

Minas Gerais, Brazil

Pyrrhotite (Fe1-xS)

This beautiful specimen has a solid yellow-bronze matallic luster. The crystals are tubular with face striated horizontally. It's hardness is 3.5-4.5 Distinguished from pyrite by its ferromagnetism.

 

Newpaper sponcored award recieved in Aug. 2000. Go back to the collection. Student award from University of Wisconsin sponsored program.

Cape Cod Rocks, inc.
Patricia Fox Dauphinee, Executive Director
4 Eel River Road, East Falmouth, MA 02536


01.12.07