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This is my pyrite collection. Most of the really shiny ones come from Peru - especially Huanzala. Pyrite (fool's gold) used to be mined for its sulfur content - there's often enough (microscopic) gold that pyrite is a marker for gold deposits.
Sulfides on Other Pages
Bravoite, considered by some to be merely a nickeliferous variety of pyrite, is on my systematic sulfides page with the rest of the sulfides.
Pyrite Info
Marcasite, the dimorph of pyrite is included here.
Specimens on This Page
(links take you to either the first or only specimen)

6 Rows

Pyrite

Massive pyrite - don't recall where this one's from, I've had it for so long.

Pyrite

A small pyritohedron clump and a Mexican cube.

Pyrite

Pyrite "dollar" - a Christmas present from a former colleague - thanks, Liz!

Row 2

Pyrite

Pyrite perched on talc from Navajún, Logroņo, La Rioja, Spain.

Thanks to Rick Green at Uniquely Crystalline for the specimen and the image!

Pyrite

A stalactical cluster of Peruvian pyritohedral pyrite.

Thanks to Dan DelGaudio's auction on eBay for the specimen!

Pyrite

More Peruvian pyrite - the faces on these pyritohedrons are relatively large.

Thanks to Anne & Charles Steuart's auction on eBay for the specimen!

Row 3

Pyrite and
Quartz

Four and a half pounds of pyrite with quartz - location unknown.

Thanks to Lynn Pinch's auction on eBay for the specimen!

Pyrite

This pyrite cluster with minor quartz from Madan, Bulgaria, couldn't decide whether to crystallize in pyritohedrons or cubes, thus the wavy faces.

Thanks to Darrel Merke's auction on eBay for the specimen and the image!

Pyrite

Another nice pyrite from Huanzala, Peru - this one has larger crystals on one side.

Thanks to Kevin MacNelly's (Geodeland) auction on eBay for the specimen!

Row 4

Pyrite

A small single pyritohedron from Logroņo, Spain.

Thanks to Adam Larson's (Adam's Minerals) auction on eBay for the specimen!

Pyrite

A beautiful bright thumbnail of millimeter-size pyrite from the Hecla Rosebud Mine, Pershing County, Nevada.

Thanks to Tony Nikischer at the Excalibur Mineral Company for the specimen!

Pyrite

Pyritohedral pyrite from Huanzala, Peru.

Thanks to David Wolfe's auction on eBay for the specimen and the image!

Row 5

Pyrite

A pair of Cyprian pyrite clusters.

Thanks to Antonis Frangoudis' auction on eBay for the specimens!

Pyrite
on Barite

This is a rare specimen of pyrite clusters on barite from Mount Evans, Colorado - some of the pyrite clusters are in turn coated with tiny brown barites.

Thanks to Ken DeMary's auction on eBay for the specimen!

Pyrite

A beautiful pyrite twin thumbnail from the Hunan Province of China.

Thanks to Miao Yang's auction on eBay for the specimen!

Row 6

Pyrite

Mostly pyritohedral pyrite from Peru.

Thanks to Stephen Lancellotti's auction on eBay for the specimen!

Pyrite

A beautiful pair of pyritohedral pyrites from Parrsboro on the Bay of Fundy (collected during low tide), Nova Scotia, Canada.

Thanks to Bob York's auction on eBay for the specimen!

Pyrite

Wonderfully complex pyrite crystals, clusters, and suns on (and in cracks in) matrix from Tuscany, Italy.

Thanks to Wayne Bloechl's (GeoJoe's) auction on eBay for the specimen!

Row 7

Pyrite

An old small cabinet specimen of an elongated pyrite cube (bar pyrite) on phyllite from Montpelier, Washington County, Vermont. Ex: James F. Carryer Collection.

Pyrite after
Marcasite

A fascinating miniature of pyrite after marcasite from the unique occurence at the Nanisivik Mine, Baffin Island, Nunavut, Canada.

Thanks to Rory Howell's auction on eBay for the specimen and the images!

Pyrite after
Pyrrhotite

A sparkling miniature of pyrite after pyrrhotite from the Huanzala Mine, Dos de Mayo Province, Huanuco Department, Peru. There's also some frosty octahedral fluorites present (larger image, middle right). It has a Golden Minerals / Don Knowles, Golden, Colorado tag with a $400 price!

Thanks to Wayne Moore's auction on eBay for the specimen and the image!

Row 8
 

Pyrite, var.
Right-angle Pyrite

Sugar Grove in Pendleton County, West Virginia is the "type locality" for filiform (spiral dislocation) pyrite, especially right-angle pyrite. This micro has at least one right-angle pyrite (larger image, right, FOV 2mm)

Thanks to Chris Stefano's Christopher J. Stefano Fine Minerals auction on eBay for the specimen and the image!

 

maintained by: Alan Guisewite

Last Update 27 Apr 2013