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Marcasite Psm Pyrrhotite

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Description
Locality: 
Příbram District, Central Bohemian Region, Czech Republic
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
7.5 × 5.5 × 3.4 cm
Largest Crystal: 
1.30cm
Weight: 
194.00gr
Description

Choice small miniature consisting of numerous thin hexagonal pyrrhotite crystals replaced by marcasite, associated to some brown siderite crystals and white quartz.

Contrastful and really good, this is an oldtimer (70s or earlier) from the Swiss collection Berthold Suhner. Handwritten, pasted label in German.

 

Pasted Label
Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Marcasite

Formula: 
FeS2
Strunz: 
2.EB.10a
Crystal System: 
Orthorhombic
Hardness: 
6.0 - 6.5

Pyrrhotite

Formula: 
Fe1-xS (x = 0 to 0.17)
Strunz: 
2.CC.10
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic
Hardness: 
3.5 - 4.0

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