Learning that a shiny rock is fool's gold rather than the valuable mineral is generally cause for disappointment. But for ...

A new 450-million-year-old fossil arthropod, preserved in 3D by iron pyrite (fool’s gold), has been unveiled by scientists.

A team from the University of Oxford discovered the ancient fossil, preserved in 3D by iron pyrite, at Beecher's Trilobite ...

Researchers have uncovered a golden-colored, 450-million-year-old fossil of a new arthropod species, preserved in fool’s gold ...

Most of the fossils that we find in Earth's crust are preserved in sedimentary rock, where layers of mineral cover an ...

You may think you’ve struck it rich before the gold stones disappointingly flake apart in your hands. The stones are made of ...

It all boils down to how its molecules are arranged in three dimensions. Pyrite, chemically known as iron sulfide (FeS₂), is ...

The stones are made of iron pyrite, commonly called fool’s gold, and look deceptively similar to the much more valuable mineral. In central New York, one of these disguised chunks may not have ...

The Lutila Gold Project is located favourably between two of the largest Au-Ag epithermal systems within the Central Slovakia ...

The Perikon Detector contact is between crystals of chalco-pyrites and zincite; in the Ferron Detector between a crystal of iron pyrites and a metal point; in the Silicon Detector between the ...

These sulphide beds are predominantly pyrrhotite/pyrite (iron sulphides). Some beds or bands contain minor visible sphalerite ...