Pyrite, Quartz, Enargite - image 1

Pyrite, Quartz, Enargite

$2,250.00

VisaMastercardAmerican ExpressPayPalPayPal Pay In 4Discover·
  • Free shipping
  • Seller offers an extended return window of up to 30 days
  • USAShips from USA

C

Collector’s EdgeFeatured
753 for sale·296 sold
A beaut from Butte! An all around *outstanding* miniature of pyrite, quartz, and enargite from Butte, MT. Featuring perfect modified pyriteohedron/octahedron formation with lustrous sprays of jet-black enargite on quartz, this is an unmistakable Butte classic. Some minor damage to the left side and on enargite crystal, but otherwise perfect. I can’t say I’ve ever seen another Butte mini quite as nice as this. A GREAT rock. Ex. Irv Brown.

Product details

Species
Enargite, Quartz, PyriteAbout Enargite →
SizeMiniature
Dimensions2.0 x 2.5 x 2.9 cm
Listed on10/12/2025
Locality
USA, Montana, Butte Mining DistrictRegional guide →
SKU80367

Learn more

Mineral guide
Learn about Enargite
sharp metallic prisms, gunmetal color with iridescent tarnish; rare top specimens on quartz or pyrite from classic mines like Butte, Bingham.
Enargite
Regional guide
Enargite from Butte Mining District, Montana, USA
from the Butte Mining District is one of the great black-metallic classics of American mineral collecting: sharp, steel-gray to iron-black prisms, often vertically striated, set in dense sulfide ore with quartz, pyrite, chalcocite, covellite, bornite, sphalerite, or colusite. The best pieces do not win collectors by color in the usual sense; they win by architecture and surface. Fine Butte enargite has a hard metallic flash, crisp orthorhombic form, and a distinctly “orebody” character that feels inseparable from the history of the Richest Hill on Earth.