Pyrite
Pale yellow iron disulfide, the most common sulfide in the crust. Its oxidation in air is the main cause of acid mine drainage; it often carries trace gold or arsenic.
Composition
FeS2; cubic.
Sources
In the atlas
- Neves-Corvo Portugal
- Allchar North Macedonia
- Sarylakh Russia
- Sentachan Russia
- Mikheevskoe Russia
- Grasberg Indonesia
- Henderson United States
- Jinding China
- Bushveld, Merensky Reef South Africa
- Bushveld, UG2 chromitite South Africa
- Witwatersrand basin South Africa
- Khetri Copper Belt, Madan Kudan and Kolihan India
- Singhbhum Copper Belt India
- Malanjkhand India
- Rajpura-Dariba India
- Ashanti (Obuasi) Ghana
- Gounkoto Mali
- Great Dyke (Main Sulfide Zone) Zimbabwe
- Pueblo Viejo Dominican Republic
- Massawa Senegal
- Batu Hijau Indonesia
- Les Malines France
- Tharsis Spain
- Black Forest hydrothermal veins Germany
- Pebble United States
- Gongchangling China
- Datangpo-type manganese (Gaolou, Minle, Zhenxing) China
- Zankan China
- Han-Xing China
- Linglong (Jiaodong gold district) China