The pyrite group of minerals is a set of cubic crystal system minerals with diploidal structure. Each metallic element is bonded to six "dumbbell" pairs of non-metallic elements and each "dumbbell" pair is bonded to six metal atoms.
The group is named for its most common member, pyrite (fool's gold), which is sometimes explicitly distinguished from the group's other members as iron pyrite.
Pyrrhotite (magnetic pyrite) is magnetic, and is composed of iron and sulfur, but it has a different structure and is not in the pyrite group.
Pyrite group minerals
Pyrite-group minerals include:3
- Aurostibite AuSb2
- Cattierite CoS2
- Dzharkenite FeSe2
- Erlichmanite OsS2
- Fukuchilite Cu3FeS8
- Gaotaiite Ir3Te8
- Geversite PtSb2
- Hauerite MnS2
- Insizwaite PtBi2
- Kruťaite CuSe2
- Krutovite NiAs2
- Laurite RuS2
- Penroseite (Ni,Co,Cu)Se2
- Pyrite Fe[S2]
- Sperrylite PtAs2
- Trogtalite CoSe2
- Vaesite NiS2
- Villamanínite CuS2
External links
- Media related to Pyrite group at Wikimedia Commons
References
Pyrite group on Mindat.org http://www.mindat.org/min-9258.html ↩
Malcolm E. Back (2014). Fleischer's Glossary of Mineral Species (11 ed.). p. 382. ↩
Pyrite group on Mindat.org http://www.mindat.org/min-9258.html ↩