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Pyrite from
Maitland Mines, Gqeberha, Nelson Mandela Bay Metropolitan Municipality, Eastern Cape, South Africa


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Pyrite
Formula:FeS2
Comments:All pyrite from this site that I have found so far has been in the process of psudomorphing to limonite and thus have a red/orange/black coating but this process is not yet complete as the crystals still display a golden pyrite hue when broken.
Colour:golden
Luminescent properties:no
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Limonite1 photo of Pyrite associated with Limonite at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Pyrite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Maitland Mines, Gqeberha, Nelson Mandela Bay Metropolitan Municipality, Eastern Cape, South Africa
Photo GalleryView Gallery (2 photos)
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:908182
Long-form Identifier:1:3:908182:6
GUID (UUID V4):c035edb7-edd0-47d4-b115-4f3db1076477
References
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Book
Maarten J. de Wit Editors Origin and Evolution of the Cape Mountains and Karoo Basin Regional Geology Reviews...Arthur Fuller with his field equipment exploring the Cape-Karoo on his motorcycle in 1960. Today young geo-scientists...attracted by such basic fieldwork (and freedom), yet the Cape Mountains and Karoo hinterland is a unique natural...of the Cape Mountains and Karoo Basin 123 Editors Bastien Linol AEON-ESSRI Nelson Mandela Metropolitan...Metropolitan University Port Elizabeth South Africa ISSN 2364-6438 Regional Geology Reviews ISBN 978-3-319-40858-3
Report (issue)
all-important-indeed, indispensable. • Duroc;her, J., Ann. des Mines, vol.ll, p. 217,1857. Roth, J., Gesteins-Analysen...impurities· by evaporation with hydro- oxidizmg effect on pyrite, and, starting from this fact, fluoric acid, as...unless the presence of a considerable amount of pyrite or pyrrhotite makes the determinatior1 of ferrous...only those essential to a proper understanding of eastern and the extreme western parts of the United· the...found in Doelter's analyses of the· augitites of the Cape Verde Islands. These analyses show 16 to 24 per
Report (issue)
Survey Wartime Pamphlet on the 'Water Supply of South-East England from Underground Sources'., 1940. Despite...ORIGINAL Geological Survey Office, Exhibition Road, South Kensington, London, S.W.7. 11th December 1962 C...Hythe Beds outlier at .. .. .. .. .. Goldwell, south of Hothfield . . Sections to illustrate the structure...east of the Sandling road, one quarter of a mile south of Park House, .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. Maidstone...PAGE PLATE II. A. Quarry in Tunbridge Wells Sand, south of Stiles Farm, Horsmonden. Thinly bedded siltstones
 
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