Pyrite (unusual cast after ??)

Huanzala Mine, Huallanca, Huallanca District, Bolognesi Province, Ancash, Peru
Small Cabinet, 8.3 x 3.5 x 3.2 cm
Start Time: 05/23/2010 6:30:00 pm (CDT)
End Time: 06/01/2010 6:30:00 pm (CDT)
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Item Description

This is from a late 2010 find, of really bizarre etched-looking pyrites that seem to have formed as casts over an earlier generation of pyrite (or another species) which then dissolved away. They are skeletal and exquisitely complex when looked at closely, composed of flatlaying crystals in random patterning, with a 3-dimensional form. Bizarre things!

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