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For example, iron pyrite is not native to Barnham, which suggests that early humans deliberately collected it to start fires.
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Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 22 Dec. 2025
Most convincingly of all, the researchers uncovered two tiny fragments of iron pyrite.
—Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 10 Dec. 2025
However, the smoking gun was the two pieces of iron pyrite, sometimes called fool’s gold, which can be used to strike flint, creating sparks that could have lit tinder such as dry fungus.
—Katie Hunt, CNN Money, 10 Dec. 2025
However, iron pyrite is not common to southern England.
—Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 10 Dec. 2025
Researchers think Neanderthals transported this piece of iron pyrite to make fire.
—Evan Bush, NBC news, 10 Dec. 2025
The Rockies‘ defense: pure gold one day, iron pyrite the next.
—Patrick Saunders, Denver Post, 30 Mar. 2025
But for scientists who discovered a new 450-million-year-old arthropod preserved in iron pyrite, the substance could be considered priceless.
—Paul Smaglik, Discover Magazine, 29 Oct. 2024
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Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 22 Dec. 2025
Most convincingly of all, the researchers uncovered two tiny fragments of iron pyrite.
—Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 10 Dec. 2025
However, the smoking gun was the two pieces of iron pyrite, sometimes called fool’s gold, which can be used to strike flint, creating sparks that could have lit tinder such as dry fungus.
—Katie Hunt, CNN Money, 10 Dec. 2025
However, iron pyrite is not common to southern England.
—Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 10 Dec. 2025
Researchers think Neanderthals transported this piece of iron pyrite to make fire.
—Evan Bush, NBC news, 10 Dec. 2025
The Rockies‘ defense: pure gold one day, iron pyrite the next.
—Patrick Saunders, Denver Post, 30 Mar. 2025
But for scientists who discovered a new 450-million-year-old arthropod preserved in iron pyrite, the substance could be considered priceless.
—Paul Smaglik, Discover Magazine, 29 Oct. 2024
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