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Pyrite Filiform Chabazite

 I bought this sample at the fair grounds early in June at the Richland Lithic and Lapidary Gem and Mineral Show.  I bought it from Don Smolley who collected it at Sugar Grove, Pendleton Co., West Virginia, a well known place for this mineral.

I would like to give thanks to Mindat.org whose experts helped me find it.  Someone mentioned that it forms in a vug, a depression, and almost immediately I found it.  The vug is in the lower left corner of the image above.  Now that I know where it is I can see it.  It is almost directly above the copyright symbol.  It is tiny, about 1 mm. The cube measured about 6mm.

Pyrite Filiform Chabazite

The above formation, on the top edge of the vug, I think, also houses a small cube of pyrite one corner of which is extending out of the crystal formation. It is directly above the "b" of Chabazite.  Let me know if you can see it.  I don't have that confirmed.