Pyrrhotite

  

Origin: Blue Bell mine, Riondell, BC, Canada

Sample size: 3 x 2 x 1.5 cm, crystals up to 1 cm

 

     

Pyrrhotite platy crystals to 1 cm covered with pyrite

Origin: Hecla Rosebud mine, Pershing Co., Nevada, USA

Sample size: 2 x 2 x 1 cm

 

     

Pyrrhotite platy crystals to 8 mm covered with pyrite and associated with quartz

Origin: Hecla Rosebud mine, Pershing Co., Nevada, USA

Sample size: 2.5 x 2 x 1 cm

 

  

Origin: Dalnegorsk, Russia

Sample size: 9 x 8 x 6 cm, crystal 2 x 1 cm

 

  

Pyrrhotite on calcite

Origin: Morro Velho Gold mine, Nova Lima, Minas Gerais, Brazil
Eaton Collection

Sample size: 4.5 x 4 x 1.5 cm

 

Origin: Santa Eulalia district, Chihuahua, Mexico

Sample size: 2 x 2 x 2 cm

 

  

Large brassy, thick hexagonal, well formed crystals to 2 cm associated with black sphalerite and needle quartz crystals to 3mm

Origin: Dalnegorsk, Russia

Sample size: 10 x 7 x 5 cm

 

  

Well-formed pyrrhotite crystals to 1 cm with black beads of "thucholite", a mixture of hydrocarbons with uraninite.

Origin: Denison mine, Elliot Lake, Ontario, Canada

Ex. Polak collection

Sample size: 3 x 3 x 1.5 cm

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Origin: Morro Velho mine, Nova Lima, Minas Gerais, Brazil

Owner: Lou Perloff

Microscopic image

 

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Photo-Atlas of Minerals

  

Pyrrhotite on quartz

  

Pyrrhotite with galena

Origin: Nikolaevsky Mine, Dalnegorsk, Primorskiy Kray, Russia

Sample size: 5.5 x 4.5 x 4 cm (top),  8.9 x 5.4 x 4.1 cm (2nd/bottom row)

 

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The Arkenstone

 

Origin: Blue Bell mine, Riondell, British Columbia, Canada

Sample size: 4.5 x 3 x 3 cm

 

Photo courtesy of: 

Dan Weinrich

Dealer in fine mineral specimens

 

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