Friday, August 25, 2006

Sulfide Accessories --

These add a lot to a rock's appearance, don't you think?

Pyrite, silvery shiny in center and right, is in a matrix of quartz, with colorful secondary sulfide minerals (mainly sphalerite) coating the rock surface.

A piece of "stockwork zone" from a hydrothermal system in the Pindos Ophiolite. Posted by Picasa

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