Pyrite

Raw Pyrite Jewelry, Handmade in Japan

Explore TROZO's raw pyrite necklaces, rings, ear cuffs and earrings — each built around a real, uncut pyrite rather than a cut and polished stone. Every piece is handmade in Japan, and as one-of-a-kind raw stone it is truly unique.

Pyrite (fool’s gold) is a sulfide mineral, FeS₂, isometric (cubic), Mohs 6–6.5. Its great distinction is that nature grows it into perfect cubes — geometric raw stones that look as if machined, the natural cubes of Navajún, Spain being especially prized by collectors. With a brassy metallic luster, it earned the name “fool’s gold” and was mistaken for gold time and again in the gold-rush age. The name “Pyrite” is from the Greek *pyr* (fire), for the sparks it strikes — used since antiquity as a fire-starter and later in crystal-radio detectors.

TROZO works every pyrite unpolished, setting it so its natural colour and form lead the design — handmade in Japan, and no two raw stones alike.