14PE42 Pyrite
Racracancha Mine, Tinyahuarco Dist., Pasco Prov., Pasco Dept., Peru
8.0x 9.0x 3.1 cm
$395

A perfect, damage free and rather sculptural pyrite specimen from the Racracancha mine.  Racracancha has produced mainly cubic pyrite, virtually always with striated faces,  and this is a particularly large example.   

As is unfortunately the case with most Peruvian specimen mines (Racracancha is operated exclusively for specimens) a lack of heavy machinery means that miners are confined mainly to old workings.  Very little good material has been found over the last two years, and most of what has been recovered over that interval is simply massive pyrite, not crystaline. 

Fine crystalline examples like this were never common-- damage is almost always present.

Racracancha is a long abandoned mine, which around 2007 was rediscovered by local miners who for the last few years have been working to extract mineral specimens.  The mine is most notable for its striated pyrites, included calcites, and manganocalcites. 








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