pyrite
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- n a common mineral (iron disulfide) that has a pale yellow color
- Georgia's biggest bank on the losing side Atlanta, golden city of the "New New" South, has been showing big veins of pyrite lately.
- The Gunflint chert also contains minerals, such as pyrite (iron sulphide), that are deposited from solutions containing no oxygen.
- He began mining the area's neglected iron pyrite deposits (for sulphuric acid), then built a plant to process the pyrite wastes, and extracted 600,000 tons of pig iron yearlya .