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Chalcopyrite

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MIM Museum
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Golden, iridescent crystals, not very well crystallized, on white quartz with an adjacent rosette of bournonite

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Species
ChalcopyriteAbout Chalcopyrite →
Added on11/10/2024
Locality
Russia, Primorsky Krai, DalnegorskRegional guide →

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Chalcopyrite
Mineral guide
Learn about Chalcopyrite
brassy-gold, metallic crystals with disphenoid forms and rainbow tarnish; prized for luster, contrast, and localities like Dalnegorsk.
Chalcopyrite
Regional guide
Chalcopyrite from Dalnegorsk, Russia
Dalnegorsk chalcopyrite is one of the modern classics of the sulfide-collector world: not merely brassy accessory specks in a lead-zinc ore, but sharp, architectural crystals with a personality all their own. The district is better known to many collectors for galena, sphalerite, pyrrhotite, fluorite, calcite, quartz, datolite, ilvaite, and hedenbergite, yet chalcopyrite from here deserves separate attention because it appears in bold three-dimensional forms, often as pseudotetrahedral crystals and complex twins, and because the best pieces show a distinctly Dalnegorsk contrast: yellow-gold chalcopyrite set against black sphalerite, silver galena, bronze pyrrhotite, colorless to pale green fluorite, and white calcite.