recently suggested pyrite – fool’s gold – could be a source of lithium as well. The researchers analyzed 15 sedimentary rock samples from the Appalachian basin. They were dated to the middle ...

The famous layer of rock in Cleveland, NY is known for containing numerous well-preserved fossils. The newest find was entirely preserved in fool’s gold, creating a “spectacularly preserved ...

Learning that a shiny rock is fool's gold rather than the valuable mineral is generally cause for disappointment. But for scientists who discovered a new 450-million-year-old arthropod preserved ...

The density of pyrite also means the fool's gold material thoroughly filled in tiny areas where the arthropod's body once lay in sediment − including internal body parts, scientists said.

Near a river in upstate New York (not pictured), a deceptive rock held something valuable ... The stones are made of iron pyrite, commonly called fool’s gold, and look deceptively similar ...

a layer of rock containing multiple well-preserved fossils. The animals preserved there lived in a hostile, low oxygen environment. That allowed iron pyrite, commonly known as fool's gold ...

The 450-million-year-old fossilized corpse of a new spider species has been discovered preserved by fool’s gold. A research team ... a layer of rock which is famously home to many well-preserved ...

a layer of rock containing multiple well-preserved fossils. The animals preserved there lived in a hostile, low oxygen environment. That allowed iron pyrite, commonly known as fool's gold, to replace ...

Normally people come in with fools gold or other rocks that look like gold, Mr Kamp says. "But he pulled this rock out and as he dropped it into my hand he said, 'Do you think there's A$10,000 ...