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.

CONDITION

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LOT 0391