| AllMinerals/JohnBetts-FineMinerals > Online Mineral Museum Photographic Archive > Minerals from Mexico > Pyrite with partial Chalcocite coating on Hematite-coated Quartz |
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| DESCRIPTION: | No. 75669 |
| Mineral: | Pyrite with partial Chalcocite coating on Hematite-coated Quartz |
| Locality: | Milpillas Mine, Cuitaca, Sonora, Mexico |
| Description: | Lustrous yellow-metallic pyrite crystal partially coated with gray chalcocite on contrasting with white matrix with translucent red hematite-coated quartz crystals to 1 mm. The pyrite is cubic form, with octahedral corner faces, and diploid edge faces. Collected in 2015 |
| Overall Size: | 4x3x2.5 cm |
| Crystals: | 1-17 mm |
| Archived: | For reference only |
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