Buying Cubic Pyrite specimens off ebay
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Are they real ?
Not having a go at you but they look a bit to good to me .
Not having a go at you but they look a bit to good to me .
Apparently so, glued back togeather. I assume that's what 'reconstructed' means.Goldfreak said:
https://www.minfind.com/mineral-574300.html
I used to have some really beautiful specimen pieces, the cubes were never that large or that perfect though but some pieces were as big as dinner plates and the odd piece would stand out as having almost perfect cubes but more the size of 10-20c coins scattered with more random crystalline morphologies.
I was in my teens I guess (completely naive)and some people I met from Coffs Harbour named "Melbourne" who owned some sort of gem shop up there convinced me to hand over my collection including many other varied quartz crystals etc so they could appraise it, they told me they would give me an idea of how much it was all worth and if I wanted I could put the collection on consignment, or if I wanted to keep hold of it they would be coming back through my way and return it. They seemed honest as could be and even had dinner at our house......of course I never saw them or my collection again, I handed over somewhere around 8 of those white foam boxes absolutely packed with crystals and loads of specimen pyrite!
I was in my teens I guess (completely naive)and some people I met from Coffs Harbour named "Melbourne" who owned some sort of gem shop up there convinced me to hand over my collection including many other varied quartz crystals etc so they could appraise it, they told me they would give me an idea of how much it was all worth and if I wanted I could put the collection on consignment, or if I wanted to keep hold of it they would be coming back through my way and return it. They seemed honest as could be and even had dinner at our house......of course I never saw them or my collection again, I handed over somewhere around 8 of those white foam boxes absolutely packed with crystals and loads of specimen pyrite!
What a blow 
, some people just cant help themselves.
, some people just cant help themselves.Aussiechris. I think i might of had the same bad experience with the same people from coffs harbour. I went on a school excusion many years ago to Narrabri district to a place where we each filled a 20 litre bucket of thunder eggs. Once home my dad took them to a local gem stone dealer for the thunder eggs to be cut. After a week we went back to pick them up only to be told that out of the 20 thunder eggs only one was any good. My school mate took his to the local lapidary club and all twenty were worth cutting. Grrrr never again. :N:
They are real but they dont look it do they. Thats what makes pyrites so facinating to me. Just wondering if they are glued back together because they are found in some sort of matrix. I have found some pyrites crystals near Adelaide but they are much smaller in this, and more golden in colour also in a pyritahedron ( real word ) shape not cubic.aussiefarmer said:
Some Pyrite Cube Formations are open to speculations.... Purchase them and if you feel you got ripped... Paypal is your friend...
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interesting those specimans,look to good to be real,we get some rippers at work,heres one....
Some Core Samples taken from Cudeco's Rocklands Mine site at Cloncurry.... love the Pyrite...
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