Pyrite Cluster - 2.401" rockinaboxquartzpendant Above: Large

Above: Large

During the Ordovician

" Advances in Mammoth Research 9 (2003): 415-420

every dinosaur that lived during the Mesozoic was hatched from an egg

Once known by the Egyptian word tjehenet or "that which shines"

Pyrite Cluster - 2.401" rockinaboxquartzpendant Above: LargeBetter known as Fool's Gold, pyrite is an iron sulfide compound with a gold like appearance, hence its nickname. Unlike gold however, pyrite often forms in cubic crystals, an expression of the mineral's cube shaped atomic structure. This specimen is a pyrite cluster measuring 2. 401". It might not be worth its weight in gold, but this mineral has been valued since prehistory when pyrite was used as a fire starter by Neanderthals and our other human