Bosque Draw, Chaves County, New Mexico, USAi
| Regional Level Types | |
|---|---|
| Bosque Draw | Valley |
| Chaves County | County |
| New Mexico | State |
| USA | Country |
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Latitude & Longitude (WGS84):
33° 45' 36'' North , 104° 18' 30'' West
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Locality along the Pecos River for highly inter-grown, stacked, cubic pyrite crystals encrusting elongated masses of fine-grained, massive pyrite dug from a clay layer. One hypothesis for their genesis is that the massive pyrite cores replaced fish excrement followed by coarse crystal overgrowth (see specimen photo captions).
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1 valid mineral.
Detailed Mineral List:
| ✪ Pyrite Formula: FeS2 Habit: cubic Description: Intergrown cubic pyrite crystals to 2.5 cm encrusting fine-grained, massive pyrite cores, some elongated to at least 15 cm. |
List of minerals arranged by Strunz 10th Edition classification
| Group 2 - Sulphides and Sulfosalts | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| ⓘ | Pyrite | 2.EB.05a | FeS2 |
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- Mazatzal TerraneVolcanic Arc
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Bosque Draw, Chaves County, New Mexico, USA