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Pyrite

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Pyrite, 4.2 cm, with growth hillocks on cube faces, from the Belshazzar mine, Quartzburg District, Boise County, Idaho. Jeff Scovil photo.

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SpeciesPyrite
SizeMiniature
Dimensions4.2 cm
Added on02/13/2026
LocalityUSA, Idaho, Belshazzar Mine
Publications
  • Mineralogical Record Mineral Collections In American Northeast page 138
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Carl A. Francis

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Pyrite
Mineral guide
Learn about Pyrite
brilliant metallic luster, perfect cubes, and golden color; collectors prize affordable pieces to top specimens, with Navajún and Huanzala localities.
Pyrite
Regional guide
Pyrite from Belshazzar Mine
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Locality guide
Belshazzar Mine
Belshazzar Mine, USA - Idaho locality known for quartz-gold and bismuth minerals, with brassy-yellow free gold in wires and complex crystalline growths.