Moving mountains for you
Switch currency

Current Live Auctions

Current Live Fixed Price Sales

Pyrobitumen With Malachite

Views:
Watches:
GND128326

Pyrobitumen With Malachite

Description Tabs

Description
Locality: 
Sandy Flat Mine, Redbank, Wollogorang Station, Roper Gulf Region, Northern Territory, Australia
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
5 × 4.6 × 3.5 cm
Description

Irregular black grains of pyrobitumen, a hydrocarbon mineraloid,occurs in this specimen with malachite and massive chalcocite.  From a find of a few years ago.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Malachite

Formula: 
Cu2(CO3)(OH)2
Strunz: 
5.BA.10
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic
Hardness: 
3.5 - 4.0
Gondwana Minerals