Pyrite

specimen number:
2063725

location:
Brushy Creek Mine, Viburnum Trend, Reynolds Co., Missouri, USA

description:
Bright golden lustrous crystals of pyrite to 1.0 cm in size aesthetically arranged across the top of a breccia matrix. In good condition. The specimen comes with a previous label from the collection of Ray DeMark. Collected by Brian Huntsman in the spring of 1995.

Situated along the prolific Viburnum Trend in Reynolds County, Missouri, the Brushy Creek Mine represents a premier underground Mississippi Valley-type ore deposit hosted within Paleozoic carbonate strata. Discovered in the mid-twentieth century and developed for industrial extraction, the mine targeted subsurface metal-rich sulfide mineralization localized along ancient reef facies and permeable breccia zones. For mineral collectors and museum curators, Brushy Creek is celebrated globally as an exceptional source of pristine cabinet specimens, yielding brilliant metallic cubic galena, glistening chalcopyrite, and fine calcite specimens that rank among the finest discovered in modern American mining history.

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