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5 unusual facts about pyrite


Gulf and Ship Island Railroad

During the early years after port development, some of the items imported through Gulfport included phosphates, iron pyrite, creosote oil, naval stores and mahogany.

Hartbeesfontein

When the water is however allowed to seep into mines it is oxidised and polluted by the exposed iron pyrites.

Mount Gulaga

These Pyrite-rich veins (which range in size from 15 to 45 cm) were mined by the Mount Dromedary Gold Mining Company.

Triarthrus

The specimens of T. eatoni that are found in the Beecher's Trilobite Bed, Rome, New York area are exquisitely preserved showing soft body parts in iron pyrite.

Water supply and sanitation in Belgium

In Mons surface water from the Maas is treated to provide another 30% of the city's water needs; in Vedrin, part of Namur, water is pumped from an abandoned Pyrite mine; springs in Genappe, wells in Waterloo and Zaventem, and mines in Ligny and Écaussinnes provide the remainder of Brussel's water supply.


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Castro Verde Municipality

Further, the municipality of Castro Verde is crossed by the Iberian Pyrite Belt, composed of a massive volcanogenic sulfide deposit (VMS) associated with the polymetallic flanks of volcanic cones in the form of pyrite, chalcopyrite, sphalerite, galena and cassiterite, that begins in Aljustrel, spreads through the lower Alentejo and extends into southern Spain.

Dove Bradshaw

On top of one is a pyrite mixer designed to receive live emissions from Jupiter transmitted via a dedicated line from the radio telescope at Pisgah Astronomical Research Institute in Rosman, North Carolina.

Ferroplasma acidiphilum

F. acidophilum is generally found in acidic mine tailings, primarily those containing pyrite (FeS2).

Moon 44

The others return safely to Earth, where Stone informs the Galactic Mining Chairman (Roscoe Lee Browne) that Lee was bribed by Pyrite to redirect the mining shuttles to a planet in the Outer Zone.

Promicroceras

Pyritic Promicroceras fossils are commonly found along the coast of Lyme Regis where they are well preserved in the Lower Jurassic (Sinemurian) Black Ven Marl.


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