A Geoscience Digital Image Library
A Geoscience Digital Image Library
| Title | Pyrrhotite with chalcopyrite and magnetite |
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| Description | The gold-yellow mineral here is chalcopyrite. The non-yellow (darker bronze-gray) material is pyrrhotite mixed with magnetite. These are all important copper (Cu) and iron (Fe) ore minerals - chalcopyrite has composition CuFeS2, pyrrhotite is Fe1-xS and magnetite is Fe3O4. The specimen is 9 cm in longest dimension. |
| Location | Canada ▹ Ontario. Near Sadbury. |
| Photographer | Darla Sondrol. 2001-07-09. |
| Collection | University of North Dakota Mineralogy Collection #190. |
| Key words | pyrrhotite, chalcopyrite, magnetite, Ontario, Canada |
| Tech details | 806 KB. Hand specimen. Fujifilm FinePix S1Pro digital camera; 60mm AF Nikon micro lens. |
| GeoDIL number | 1055 |
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