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| DESCRIPTION: | No. 75570 |
| Mineral: | Pyrite and Quartz |
| Locality: | Milpillas Mine, Cuitaca, Sonora, Mexico |
| Description: | Lustrous yellow-metallic 23 mm pyrite crystal in white matrix with lustrous transparent colorless quartz crystals to 1 mm. The pyrite crystallized first, then fractured resulting in a missing corner, then was trapped in the surrounding quartz-clay matrix Collected in 2015. Analysis of coating performed from Ben Grguric at South Australian Museum |
| Overall Size: | 5.5x4.5x3.5 cm |
| Crystals: | 1-23 mm |
| Archived: | For reference only |
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