Iron pyrite, or fool’s gold, is easy to distinguish from the real thing if you know what you’re looking at. It’s brassy, more ...

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The shiny mineral that’s long been slandered as fool’s gold may turn into a legitimate treasure in the race for green energy resources. The transformation isn’t the result of alchemy, though. It’s ...

Experts have discovered a 450-million-year-old 3D fossil of a spider relative preserved in fool’s gold. Fossils offer a ...

The continued proliferation of photovoltaic cells demands that scientists find additional materials outside of the traditional silicon that can efficiently convert sunlight into electricity while ...

Fool’s Gold pyrite a mineral so shiny it convinced thousands they’d struck it rich. Turns out, it’s just iron and sulfur pretending to be someone.

Carlin-type gold deposits host gold in arsenian pyrite, but core-rim pyrite growth mechanisms remain unclear. This study integrates micro-/nano-scale analyses of pyrite from Chinese deposits.