A Geoscience Digital Image Library
A Geoscience Digital Image Library
| Title | Arsenopyrite from Erythrite Mine, Middletown, Conneticuit |
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| Description | The white mineral is quartz, and the gray mineral is arsenopyrite, FeAsS (iron arsenic sulfide). Arsenopyrite is often bright metallic and silvery but is rather drab in this specimen (8 cm across). It is the most common mineral that contains arsenic, and is thus a major ore of that element. It is also sometimes mined because it may contain gold. Arsenopyrite has a distinctive garlic odor when struck; miners like that smell because it means that gold ore may be nearby. |
| Location | USA ▹ Connecticut. Near Middletown. Erythrite Mine. |
| Photographer | Darla Sondrol. 2001-07-11. |
| Collection | University of North Dakota Mineralogy Collection #1766. |
| Key words | arsenopyrite, Connecticut |
| Tech details | 501 KB. Hand specimen. Fujifilm FinePix S1Pro digital camera; 60mm AF Nikon micro lens. |
| GeoDIL number | 1126 |
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