Pyrite Earth Sciences Museum University of Waterloo
Back to Rocks and Minerals Articles Kathy Feick Pyrite group of minerals Pyrite Chalcopyrite Marcasite Arsenopyrite Chromate Copper Arsenate Pyrite FeS2 Isoclinic Pyrite s name comes from the Greek pyrites lithos the stone which strikes fire The crystals form in the Isometric System; cubes octahedrons pyritohedrons and combinations of these and other forms