Pyrite

Australasia Australia New South Wales

10064 Rhodochrosite, Pyrite, Southern operations mine (Pasminco mine; Perilya mine; Consolidated Zinc Mine; CRA mine; New Broken Hill Consolidated Mine; NBHC Mine), Broken Hill, Yancowinna Co., New South Wales

Platy zoned thin hexagonal rhodocrosite crystals with a dusting of pyrite, plus pyrite on the matrix. Ex Milton Lavers Collection #962. Includes label from when the specimen was on display at the Munich Mineral Show in 2008. Purchased at Ausrox and Crystal Classics Milton Lavers Collection sale day.

  • October 5, 2019
Europe Italy

10033 Protochabourneite, Arsiccioite, Pyrite, Monte Arsiccio Mine, Sant’Anna di Stazzema, Stazzema, Apuan Alps, Lucca Province, Tuscany, Italy

Type Locality for both species. This relatively NEW SPECIES was approved in 2011 but has only recently reached the mineral market (October 2014). Protochabourneite occurs as black micro granular aggregates sparely scattered in quartz/pyrite matrix, a complex triclinic thallium-lead-antimony sulfosalt. Also present, minute deep red micro granules of arsiccioite.

  • October 5, 2019

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