Nature has used 21 different ways over the last 4.5 billion years to create pyrite (aka Fool’s Gold) -- the mineral world’s champion of diverse origins. Pyrite forms at high temperature and ...

For enjoyers of nature and geology, however, it can be rewarding to simply know why pyrite looks like this. Gaining a new level of understanding about pyrite can also offer a new level of ...

This photo shows researchers doing field sampling of a pyrite-rich black shale outcrop in China. The weathering of such sediments, which contain sulfur originally buried from the ocean ...