The mineral marcasite, sometimes called "white iron pyrite", is iron sulfide (FeS2) with orthorhombic crystal structure. It is physically and crystallographically...
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Marcasite jewellery is jewellery made using cut and polished pieces of pyrite (fool's gold) as gemstone, and not, as the name suggests, from marcasite...
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solar cells made entirely of pyrite. Pyrite is used to make marcasite jewelry. Marcasite jewelry, using small faceted pieces of pyrite, often set in silver...
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can be replaced by other minerals (e.g. calcite, siderite, pyrite or marcasite) during diagenesis. Porosity usually decreases during diagenesis, except...
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pyrrhotite (hexagonal) Mackinawite, Fe1+xS (where x = 0 to 0.1) (tetragonal) Marcasite, orthorhombic FeS2 Pyrite, cubic FeS2 (fool's gold) Arsenopyrite (mispickel)...
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MV Star of Malta (redirect from USS Marcasite (PY-28))
the vessel served in the United States Navy as the patrol yacht USS Marcasite (PY-28). She was subsequently sold into commercial service, being renamed...
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Howlite Jade Jasper Kyanite Labradorite Lapis lazuli Larimar Malachite Marcasite Moonstone Obsidian Onyx Opal Peridot Prasiolite Quartz (smoky) Ruby Sapphire...
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start fires. Before the advent of steel, a variety of iron pyrite or marcasite was used with flint and other stones to produce a high-temperature spark...
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source. It is associated with native mercury, stibnite, realgar, pyrite, marcasite, opal, quartz, chalcedony, dolomite, calcite, and barite. Cinnabar is...
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Marcos Engineering (section Marcos Marcasite)
with the financial backing of Canadian Tony Stelliga, to manufacture the Marcasite TS250 with a 2.5-litre 175 bhp (130 kW; 177 PS) Ford V6 followed in 2003...
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deposits associated with sphalerite, pyrite, chalcopyrite, barite and marcasite. It also occurs in low-temperature clay-ironstone concretions. It was...
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inclusions in native gold, petzite or chalcopyrite. It belongs to the marcasite group and forms a mineral line with mattagamite. Frohbergite most often...
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dipyramidal D2h (Vh) mmm *222 [2,2] Centrosymmetric Olivine, aragonite, marcasite Pmmm, Pnnn, Pccm, Pban, Pmma, Pnna, Pmna, Pcca, Pbam, Pccn, Pbcm, Pnnm...
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are sometimes mistaken for fossils of sand dollars or other forms (see marcasite). Cracks, bumps, gas bubbles, and such can be difficult to distinguish...
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forms from the oxidation of primary sulfide minerals such as pyrite and marcasite in the near-surface environment. It often occurs as a post mine encrustation...
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Howlite Jade Jasper Kyanite Labradorite Lapis lazuli Larimar Malachite Marcasite Moonstone Obsidian Onyx Opal Peridot Prasiolite Quartz (smoky) Ruby Sapphire...
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Howlite Jade Jasper Kyanite Labradorite Lapis lazuli Larimar Malachite Marcasite Moonstone Obsidian Onyx Opal Peridot Prasiolite Quartz (smoky) Ruby Sapphire...
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mercury deposits and is associated with native mercury, wurtzite, stibnite, marcasite, realgar, calcite, barite, chalcedony and hydrocarbons. It was first described...
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Ludlamite Ludwigite Magnesite Malachite Marialite-meionite Wernerite (var.) Marcasite Meliphanite Mellite Mesolite Microcline Microlite Milarite Millerite Mimetite...
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minerals in SEDEX deposits are sphalerite, galena, pyrite, pyrrhotite and marcasite, with minor sulfosalts such as tetrahedrite-freibergite and boulangerite;...
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low temperature deposit in fumaroles. It occurs associated with pyrite, marcasite, halotrichite, pickeringite, epsomite, potash alum, melanterite and gypsum...
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Howlite Jade Jasper Kyanite Labradorite Lapis lazuli Larimar Malachite Marcasite Moonstone Obsidian Onyx Opal Peridot Prasiolite Quartz (smoky) Ruby Sapphire...
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deposits and is associated with realgar, orpiment, cinnabar, galena, pyrite, marcasite, arsenopyrite, cervantite, stibiconite, calcite, ankerite, barite and...
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trianion AsS3−. The connectivity of the atoms is more similar to that in marcasite than pyrite. The ion description is imperfect because the material is...
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Nauvoo Dissenter William Law (Latter Day Saints) is buried in Shullsburg Marcasite from Shullsburg Calcite from the Blackstone Mine, Shullsburg Henry Gratiot...
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mining is mentioned, using a variety of ores including copper pyrites and marcasite, some of the mining being underground, some on the surface. Iron mining...
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sediments or coal beds which contain oxidizing sulfide minerals (pyrite or marcasite). Occurs associated with alunogen, pickeringite, epsomite, melanterite...
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silfide 1317-96-0 FeS2 pyrite fool's gold 1309-36-0 iron(IV) sulfide marcasite 12068-85-8 FeSe iron(II) selenide 1310-32-3 FeTe iron(II) telluride 12125-63-2...
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typically is found in hydrothermal veins in association with sphalerite, marcasite, chalcopyrite, cerussite, anglesite, dolomite, calcite, quartz, barite...
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copper-free melanterite, which is a post mine alteration product of pyrite or marcasite. It also occurs in lacustrine sediments and coal seams. Associated minerals...
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