Slender quartz crystals with "rusty" hexagonal pyrrhotite and remnants of marcasite, and partly coated with white aragonite (?). A not very aesthetic specimen
AN_580
1 Item
Data sheet
Locality
Nikolaevskiy Mine, Dalnegorsk, Russia
Size category
Cabinet
Size (cm)
10 x 8 x 5
Weight
338 g
Formula
Fe1-xS (pyrrhotite); FeS2 (marcasite)
Properties
Submetallic; dull lustre; greyish colour
Slender quartz crystals with "rusty" sulphides attached Nikolaevskiy Mine, Dalnegorsk, Russia