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Pyrite 9x15mm Faceted Pyramid
Specifications
| SKU | GS122 |
|---|---|
| Stone | Pyrite |
| Shape | Pyramid |
| Bead size | 9x15mm |
| Cut | Faceted |
| Color | — |
| Weight | On request |
| Hardness (Mohs) | 6 to 6.5 |
| Origin | Cut in Jaipur, India |
| Availability | In stock |
Pyrite is an opaque gemstone with a metallic sheen & exhibits reflective luster. This glamorous stone is often called as “Fool’s Gold” because of its golden color and striking similarities to the actual gold. Pyrite is a strong masculine crystal composed of earth and fire elements. The stone can be used as a protective stone, also considered as a symbol of wealth and good luck. Pyrite gemstone can be used in pendants, brooches, rings, earrings, etc.
What it makes
Pyramids are used for pendants, spike necklaces, earrings. Measured base by height, e.g. 9x15mm; usually drilled drilled across the base. More about pyramids.
Brass-bright, heavy in the hand, happiest kept dry.
Pyrite comes out of the tray looking like small machined parts. Brass-yellow, mirror-bright where two facets meet, throwing flat sparks rather than a glow. Lift a strand and the weight surprises you: pyrite runs about twice as heavy as chalcedony, so a bar strand hangs with the heft of a chain. Makers reach for it when a piece wants metal in it without another metal finding, and when they want that color to come from a stone.
The old nickname is fool's gold, given because to an untrained eye the color reads deceptively like a gold nugget. Crystal tradition leans on that resemblance and calls pyrite a money stone, kept in a cash drawer or worn to draw abundance. That is tradition, not fact. The older association is with fire itself. The Greek name says as much, and the nodules found in prehistoric burial mounds suggest people carried pyrite as a means of making fire, so it has long been a stone kept close by anyone who needed a spark. None of this is a promise. It is what has been believed about a heavy, metallic stone for a very long time.
Beliefs about stones are tradition, not advice. Read the full story.
Iron sulfide, FeS2, "fool's gold." Metallic brass-yellow, Mohs 6 to 6.5 but brittle, and heavy (specific gravity about 5, twice chalcedony). It oxidizes slowly in humid air into iron sulfates and traces of sulfuric acid ("pyrite decay"). Rough is mostly Peruvian (Huanzala district) and Chinese.
Dry box with silica gel; wipe after wear; never shower, swim or sleep in it. Not for rings.
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