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LOT 0391
Natural History - Massive Pyrites Crystal Mineral Display
8 in. (15.3 kg, 20.5 cm).
Formed as a very large crystalline form of iron pyrites (fool's gold) with large main pyritohedral crystals rising from a complex base of smaller intersecting crystals.
ProvenanceFrom Peru.
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LOT 0391
Natural History - Massive Pyrites Crystal Mineral Display
Sold for (Inc. bp): £975
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An amorphous NWA 869 L6 chondrite meteorite displayed in a collector's case. 6.59 grams total, 32 mm including case
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From the exhausted Conesey Quarry, Scunthorpe, Lincolnshire, UK. -
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