Mica and pyrite are minerals found in the ground and in rocks that are excavated from quarries and used in building blocks. These minerals cause defects in building blocks, which lead to cracks and ...

It is, therefore, important to distinguish good stone combinations from bad. Pyrite, also known as the ‘Fools Gold’, is a ...

A shimmering ancient fossil unearthed in New York state looks like a piece of finely crafted jewelry, but it’s also a portal ...

But the 450 million-year-old fossil of Lomankus edgecombei, which resembles a shrimp, is preserved in fool’s gold, or iron ...

Beecher’s Trilobite Bed is located just outside Rome, New York, and multiple species of fossilized trilobites, a prehistoric ...

They placed the stone in a CT scan ... low oxygen environment that allowed pyrite, commonly known as fool’s gold, to replace parts of their bodies after they were buried in sediment, resulting ...