Pyrite with Quartz, Sphalerite, Chalcopyrite
specimen number:
4031288
location:
Animon Mine, Huaron, Pasco, Peru
description:
Bright lustrous cubic crystals of pyrite to 0.8 cm in size on a shapely matrix coated with needlelike glistening colorless quartz crystals and twinned crystals of sphalerite. Minor chalcopyrite present as well. This shows nicely all around.
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