Rainbow Pyrite
Item number: MIN0499
Price: EUR 24.00
(incl. sales tax 7%).Gross price is indicated for recipient country = Germany. Net EUR 22.43. Amount of sales tax depends on delivery address (EU sales tax reform as of July 1, 2021). Country setting can be changed in the shopping cart.
An atypical, rare find of quartz conglomerate cemented with pyrite with interference colors. The rising colors are caused by the interference of light on thin layers of metallic shiny and in places partly oxidized pyrite, creating a colorful optical play of iridescent colors. A new find from this summer (2022) comes from Bavaria and resembles the pyrite-sugared calcites that are typical of hydrothermal ore veins. But in this case, they are quartz pebbles cemented by pyrite during precipitation from cold solutions. The perfectly rounded pebbles are coated with a 1 to 2 mm thick layer of finely crystallized pyrite, which creates these colorful conglomerates.
| Format | 18 (the sample fits or fills up the box of 85x63x25 mm. Sample might be little higher.) |
|---|---|
| Size | 95x60x45 mm |
| Weight | 177 g |
| Locality | Osterhofen, Bavaria, Germany |