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Help identifying minerals and crystals please! Thank you

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Re: Help identifying minerals and crystals please! Thank you

Possibly Quartz crystals with Sphalerite or Chalcopyrite?  Hard to tell from the photos... does the black or grey crystals look metallic and if you get a light behind them do they appear clear red?  Do you know anything like locality, prior collection, etc?  Right now i can only make a guess

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These were the best pictures I can get. Yes the gray ones are metallic looking almost like a type of pyrite but I am not sure. They do not appear to be clear red, but I am not sure, I tried to get a light shining picture. They appear to definetely have a clear shade of bright red on the tips with a rainbow style tint. I do not know the locality because I bought it from a thrit store. Any more information would be greatly appreciated. I did look up charcolpyrite examples and it seems to look like that or something very similar.20191015_064800.jpg

 

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Quartz and pyrite looks like.

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I would say some type of pyrite as it does to appear to possibly have some flakes of gold in it. Just not sure of the redish rainbow crystals that cover it as well. Thanks for the help.

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In the bottom right it appears to be gold and also in a few more spots it has gold colored flakes as well20191015_064946.jpg

 

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It's quartz and pyrite

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What are the redish rainbow crystals though? I have never seen or can find any pyrite like that?

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