Pyrite oxydation under room conditions

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Jan Parafiniuk and Marek Stepisiewicz
with SEM photos by Piotr Dzierzanowski
Institute of Gochemistry, Mineralogy and Petrology
of the University of Warsaw

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My pyrite specimens have been spoiled

	click!		If pyrite in a drawer covers with whitish dust...
	click!		What and how we studied
	click!		We found... Rhomboclase
	click!		Szomolnokite, rozenite, roemerite
	click!		Halotrichite, coquimbite and paracoquimbite
	click!		Copiapite, alunogen
	click!		How the minerals form and change

Full paper: Sulphate minerals forming on pyrite and marcasite specimens stored under room conditions was published in Mineralogia Polonica v. 30 no 1 p. 59-72, 1999.

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Ó J. Parafiniuk & M. Stepisiewicz 2000