Hang on to your Pyrite

[DizzyDigger]

It seems that the physicists in Minnesota may have developed
an industrial use for iron sulfide, aka fools gold.

"In a breakthrough new study, scientists and engineers at the University of Minnesota
have electrically transformed the abundant and low-cost non-magnetic material iron
sulfide, also known as "fool's gold" or pyrite, into a magnetic material.

This is the first time scientists have ever electrically transformed an entirely non-magnetic
material into a magnetic one, and it could be the first step in creating valuable new
magnetic materials for more energy-efficient computer memory devices."

The whole article is at:

https://phys.org/news/2020-07-gold-valuable.html

 

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[metrotec]

thanks for the info. I have lots, never threw any away over the years in the gold fields.

 

[Yukon99669]

I never imagined they would find any value in something so prevalent and obnoxious...

 

[Seden]

Yeah I used to think that too Yukon till I saw this:

 

[Phil]

Early miners used to complain about that annoying worthless mineral called "Platinum".

100 years from now they are going to talk about us tossing aside $10,000 an ounce pyrite.

 

[No gold in NY]

Why save my little bits?I see so much of it in the water. Makes me wonder if there are places where it can be mined by the truck load

 

[BentFunky]

Why save my little bits?I see so much of it in the water. Makes me wonder if there are places where it can be mined by the truck load

When I was a kid, my grand parents had friends who were coal miners in Murphy, NC. They used to bring home large chunks of pyrite and give them away as gifts. Don't know what happened to it, but they gave me a chunk that could be used as a door stop.