Smooth little black meteor or ?

smallaxe said: ↑

Although the rock this post is about doesn't look like pyrite to me, I have found black pyrite. In one of the places I metal detect for gold in Nevada, there are small, black, pyrite cubes numerous enough that they're quite easy to find, and in places, they litter the ground. They really are much more black than gold/metallic colored. This is the only photo I've taken of one, but I've found better ones that are more perfect cubes. The rock identifying app may have picked up on the somewhat cubic shape of the poster's rock, and went off-track because of that.
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The bits of pyrite I find here in the Canadian PNW are quite silvery looking.

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