Melingchong
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Please identify my rock.
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Quartz Crystal and pyrite i think?
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No help here but congrats
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You may have a better response by posting a few pictures in the Hard Rock Mining Forum.
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Yes, that is pyrite. Nice Specimen! 
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As Terry mentioned, the cubic gold color crystals is pyrite. The clearish elongated peaked crystals is quartz.
All in find shape. Nice find!
Not sure without more info, but the dark minerals appear to be hornblende, a common calcium-magnesium-iron silicate mineral.
All in find shape. Nice find!
Not sure without more info, but the dark minerals appear to be hornblende, a common calcium-magnesium-iron silicate mineral.
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Nice looking rock, I like it!
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