Pyrrhotite and galena. Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia




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250µm


Pyrrhotite (brown, top) is coarse-grained and is intergrown with galena (white, centre left). Dark grey areas are gangue phases showing faint internal reflections (bottom).


Polished block, plane polarized light, x 80, air



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