🔎 UNIDENTIFIED I have about a one inch square silvery metalic cube of some ore weighs 108 grams

[CAZISMEE]

I have about a one inch square of some ore that weighs 108 grams not magnetic shiny silver color feels like a metal not perfectly square looks like in layers i GOT OUT OF A JEWELRY AND ROCK STORE OWNERS ESTATE. Any help appreciated will post picture after my phone recharges.

 

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[CAZISMEE]

HERE IT IS

 

[Red-Coat]

Nice specimen.

The appearance and large cubic crystal form are very characteristic for pyrite (iron sulphide). Although pyrite is usually a golden or orangey yellow, it can sometimes be so pale that the yellow tinge is barely noticeable and tarnishing will also take away the yellowness.

Pyrite - Wikipedia

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[CAZISMEE]

Thank you

 

[Blak bart]

Could be galena ? Just a guess.

 

[smokeythecat]

Galena (lead ore) also takes that form.

 

[Blak bart]

 

[Red-Coat]

Galena is also a possibility, but you can easily tell them apart. Galena is soft and you can readily scratch it with your fingernail. Pyrite is very hard to the extent you'd need a steel nail to scratch it.

 

[ConceptualizedNetherlandr]

Could also be Arsenopyrite. if you lick it you would taste garlic, but Do NOT, you will feel queasy as it is a poison.

 

[tamrock]

Could also be Arsenopyrite. if you lick it you would taste garlic, but Do NOT, you will feel queasy as it is a poison.

And don't try to melt it with high heat.