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Marcasite

ex Dr. F. Krantz (Bonn, GER)
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Description
Locality: 
Bytom, Silesian Voivodeship, Poland
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
6.5 × 6.5 × 3.5 cm
Description

A showy small cabinet specimen with highly lustrous brassy yellow spherical/botryoidal marcasite on a lime matrix - the old label states .. schlesien (which means Silesia). 19th century specimen from the Pb-Zn district around Bytom i presume. I unfortunately cannot read the name of the mine which starts with a "B" and ends with "grube" (german for mine)

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Marcasite

Formula: 
FeS2
Strunz: 
2.EB.10a
Crystal System: 
Orthorhombic
Hardness: 
6.0 - 6.5

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Best regards Roger