A Geoscience Digital Image Library
A Geoscience Digital Image Library
| Title | Covellite, pyrite and quartz |
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| Description | This specimen is about 10 cm tall. It contains white quartz, surrounded by deep purple-black covellite and golden pyrite. Covellite is a cupper sulfide with the composition CuS. Pyrite is an iron sulfide with composition FeS2. Quartz, Si02, is one of the most abundant minerals on earth. |
| Photographer | Shannon Heinle. 2002-02-09. |
| Collection | University of North Dakota Mineralogy Collection #1768. |
| Key words | covellite, pyrite, quartz, sulfide |
| Tech details | 819 KB. Hand specimen. Fujifilm FinePix S1Pro digital camera; 60mm AF Nikon micro lens. |
| GeoDIL number | 2274 |
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