Pyrite, the mineral world’s champion of diverse origins (IMAGE)

Carnegie Science Earth and Planets Laboratory

Pyrite, the mineral world’s champion of diverse origins

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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 and without water, with the help of microbes and in harsh environments where life plays no role whatsoever.

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