Pyrite Nuggets

Pyrite is a member of the cubic crystal system. It’s mineral class is sulphide and its color is a gold metallic. Small clusters of pyrite with their shaped crystals are generally formed hydrothermaly as chunky and spherically shapes. The shaped cube types are formed in sediments of clay and coal. Pyrite “sunbursts” are formed in the tertiary manner during the metamorphosis of the sediments.

Many people have come to know it as fools’ gold because its bright and shiny appearance has been mistaken by amateur prospectors for gold, but many times it actually is found associated with real gold. It can be found in most of North America, Chili and Peru and can be found in several different types of minerals. The tiny flecks of gold in Lapis Lazuli is probably the most familiar of those types.