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The Marcasite Mineral Group

Wednesday, November 21st, 2007

This Marcasite Group of minerals is comprised of minerals having similar orthorhombic structure that can be seen much clearly visible under petrographic polarizing light microscopes. They also have related chemistries. This mineral group was named after its most common member, the mineral Marcasite. Marcasite Group of minerals has the general formula indicated by AX2. The [...]