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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.
Provenance
From Peru.
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LOT 0391
Natural History - Massive Pyrites Crystal Mineral Display
Sold for (Inc. bp): £975
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