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Minerals / Arsenopyrite. Hingston Down quarry.

Arsenopyrite is an iron arsenic sulphide  FeAsS.  With a content of 40 to 45% arsenic, it is the principal ore of arsenic. The specimen has inclusions of chalcopyrite on a different face to the one illustrated. The specimen is from Hingston Down Quarry in Cornwall, which is a site noted for the mineral arthurite, another arsenic mineral.  

Arsenopyrite. Hingston Down quarry. Bill Bagley Rocks and Minerals



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