This mineral looks fake (pyrite)

2021-05-20

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This is a cube of pyrite (fool's gold), and it kind of looks fake, but it's actually completely natural. Pyrite is able to form in a few different ways, but in my opinion, this cube form is the most interesting.

What I think is odd about fools gold, is that it's shiny and cold like a metal, but it's not a metal at all and it's also very brittle.

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