Nature has used 21 different ways over the last 4.5 billion years to create pyrite (aka Fool’s Gold) -- the mineral world’s champion of diverse origins. Pyrite forms at high temperature and low, with ...

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This object is part of the Education and Outreach collection, some of which are in the Q?rius science education center and available to see. Notes This is a piece of pyrite, made up of both large (1 ...