Commons:Featured picture candidates/File:Pyrite from Ampliación a Victoria Mine, Navajún, La Rioja, Spain 2.jpg

File:Pyrite from Ampliación a Victoria Mine, Navajún, La Rioja, Spain 2.jpg, featured edit

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Info created & uploaded by Noodle snacks - nominated by JovanCormac
Info Since we seem to be getting nowhere with fast-track promotion, we'll probably have to do it manually after all. This is a beautiful, amazingly sharp photo of a pyrite.
Support As nominator. -- JovanCormac 06:25, 20 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose sorry, but false color for the pyrite crystals. Pyrite is more gold colored! --Alchemist-hp (talk) 07:00, 20 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
- So what is it? And why is the grey background still grey? Noodle snacks (talk) 07:15, 20 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
- Wrong. I know you're a chemist, but I have a small mineral collection and one of my pyrite crystals looks exactly like the one in the picture. See also this photo, this one and this one for other photos of pyrite that isn't gold colored. -- JovanCormac 07:37, 20 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  - Please read this: pyrite: color: pale brass yellow, dull gold. All my FeS2 pyrite samples (8x various) are gold colored. I can't believe the color from the nominated picture. --Alchemist-hp (talk) 13:57, 20 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Question Please excuse my ignorance, but what is the scale of this (not sure whether image is cropped, or scaled so can't work it out from lens etc). Thanks :-) --Tony Wills (talk) 10:14, 20 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
- Can't tell you as I didn't take the picture, but the pyrite I have (which looks similar) is about 10 cm tall. -- JovanCormac 11:27, 20 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  - That is about the size of this one too. Worth about $AUD400. Noodle snacks (talk) 11:59, 21 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Support Even if colours are real or not, I like the picture. --DPC (talk) 10:18, 20 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Support --Aqwis (talk) 11:53, 20 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Support Mindat has plenty of silver pyrite specimens too. Noodle snacks (talk) 07:53, 21 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Neutral It's right, that pyrite can have different colours and this one is pale gold coloured. But imo there is not enough contrast between the object and the backround. I think the arrangement could be much better with a black backround and indirect light. -- Ra'ike T C 17:21, 21 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Support Fools gold doesn't always have to be gold... TonyBallioni (talk) 18:50, 23 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Confirmed results:

Result: 5 support, 1 oppose, 1 neutral → featured. /JovanCormac 17:17, 30 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

This image will be added to the FP gallery: Objects