It is the story of the relations between Europeans and the natives who had lived for thousands of years in the area we now call North America. Many different Native American groups lived on the East Coast of what would become United States.
Rainbow pyrite is one of the many types of druzy gemstones. By far, the most common druzies are quartz varieties, such as agate and amethyst druzy. Other rarer varieties of druzy, include (but are not limited to) garnet druzy, rainbow hematite druzy, chrysocolla druzy, calcite druzy, and azurite druzy.
Iron pyrite is too hard for a knife blade to affect, but pure gold is soft and will show a scratch. Hit the specimen with a hammer. If you strike a piece of pyrite against hard metal or flint, you will get a spark. This well-known quality gives the mineral its name -- pyrite is Greek for of fire. Real gold will produce no sparks and should flatten under the hammerâs force.