A Geoscience Digital Image Library
A Geoscience Digital Image Library
| Title | Pyrite with tetrahedrite from Blue Bird Wickes Mine, Montana |
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| Description | This specimen contains mostly pyrite, FeS2. It is brassy colored and many of the crystals show striations on their faces. Some darker colored tetrahedrite, Cu12Sb4S13(copper antimony sulfide), is also present, as are a few glassy quartz crystals. The picture is 15 cm across. |
| Location | USA ▹ Montana. Blue Bird Wickes Mine. |
| Photographer | Darla Sondrol. 2001-07-18. |
| Collection | University of North Dakota Mineralogy Collection #280. |
| Key words | tetrahedrite, Montana, pyrite |
| Tech details | 1.21 MB. Hand specimen. Fujifilm FinePix S1Pro digital camera; 60mm AF Nikon micro lens. |
| GeoDIL number | 1249 |
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