Iron Pyrite (Have You Ever Heard the Real Name for Fool's Gold?)

I've always been interested in strange rocks. A couple of years ago, me and my family visited Utah, and believe me, there were a lot of rocks. The entire land was rocky. The house that we stayed at was sandy and dry, but beautiful. Outside the windows at night you could see the giant mountains miles away, and million pinpricks of light dotting them. If you didn't look out you were liable to step on a cactus, and we saw a couple lizards during our stay. One was several inches long and about two or three inches thick.

On vacation people really like seeing all the things there are to visit, so we naturally were going somewhere almost every day. One morning we scaled a mountain in our car and went into a large glass dome where people had cut into a mountain. Between the rocks were thousands of dinosaur fossils. Another day we visited one or two dinosaur museums, and in one of the museums there was a exhibition on rocks, and a gift shop full of rocks. There were small amethysts, light aqua rocks (I have no idea what they were) and one that caught my attention called iron pyrite which looked like pure gold.

Reading about it I realized it was the rock commonly called 'Fool's Gold' which I am sure you have heard about. It's scientific name is iron pyrite, and the piece of paper I was reading said that it had been mined from a mountain.

If you're ever looking for cool rocks, go to Utah.