Mineral: Pyrite
Locality: Gavorrano Mine, Gavorrano, Grosseto Province, Tuscany, Italy
Dimensions: 3,5 mm

Description: These crystals have an intermediate habit between cubic and dodecahedral. The biggest one envelops another, respecting the parallelism of the faces. A final scarce deposition was just able to build some tiny crystals on both "stem" and "scepter".

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