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Pyrite from
Purple Diopside Mound (PDM), Rose Road, Pitcairn, St. Lawrence County, New York, USA


Classification
Species:Pyrite
Formula:FeS2
Habit:Filliform; modified cubes to 5 mm, as minute crystals, often altered to goethite, in "gieseckite", prehnite and meionite, and as oriented, parallel arrays ogf capillary crystals in meionite.
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Corundum1
Nepheline1
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Pyrite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Purple Diopside Mound (PDM), Rose Road, Pitcairn, St. Lawrence County, New York, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:887097
Long-form Identifier:1:3:887097:1
GUID (UUID V4):0
Nearest other occurrences of Pyrite
0.1km (0.1 miles) Mulvaney property (Rose Road wollastonite deposit; McDonald Sugar Bush), Rose Road, Pitcairn, St. Lawrence County, New York, USA
5.8km (3.6 miles) Jayville mine, Pitcairn, St. Lawrence County, New York, USA
11.0km (6.8 miles) Scott farm pegmatites, Fine, St. Lawrence County, New York, USA
12.0km (7.5 miles) Balmat-Edwards Zinc Mining District, St. Lawrence County, New York, USA
12.9km (8.0 miles) Morgan farm, Edwards, St. Lawrence County, New York, USA
12.9km (8.0 miles) Edwards Mine (St. Joe Lead), Edwards, St. Lawrence County, New York, USA
13.3km (8.3 miles) Green Hill Mining Company Quarry, Talcville, Edwards, St. Lawrence County, New York, USA
13.3km (8.3 miles) Hyatt Mine, Talcville, Edwards, St. Lawrence County, New York, USA
13.9km (8.6 miles) Balmat, Fowler, St. Lawrence County, New York, USA
14.3km (8.9 miles) Empire State No. 2 Mine, Balmat, Fowler, St. Lawrence County, New York, USA
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