With the opening and success of the Davis iron pyrite and talc mine in Rowe in the 1880s, a prospecting craze developed in the area.
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The gold found in the mine was primarily small veins embedded in white quartz with inclusions of iron pyrite ( fool's gold ), iron and sulfur.
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Vast quantities of iron pyrites ( FeS ) were burnt in the town . to produce sulphur compounds for the sulphuric acid vital for the Leblanc Process.
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Throughout prehistoric Europe flint and iron pyrites ( commonly known as fool's gold ) were struck against one another in order to create a spark for firelighting.
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Also in the calcareous band of the Stotfield rock there is limestone with nodular masses of flint, crystals of galena ( lead ore ) and iron pyrites.
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During this time, they wasted much of the three months that Newport and his crew were in port loading their ships with iron pyrite ( fool's gold ).
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Whitstable, on the coast about due north, was at that time a small fishing village and port with a trade in iron pyrites from the Isle of Sheppey.
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The acid problem is created when water percolates through iron pyrite, or fool's gold, a mineral that lies exposed in shattered rock left behind after coal has been extracted.
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Gold can also be associated with arsenopyrite ( FeAsS ), which is similar to iron pyrite ( fool's gold ), wherein half of the sulfur atoms are replaced by arsenic.
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However, historically ( at least ), iron sulfide ( iron pyrite ), though a common iron mineral, has not been used as an ore for the production of iron metal.
