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Native Copper

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Native Copper

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Description
Locality: 
Ghost Croft Mine, Mullion, Cornwall, United Kingdom
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
4.5 × 6.3 × 2 cm
Description

Plant like specimen of native copper with steatite and chrysocolla perched on a small piece of serpentine matrix.

From the ancient Ghost Croft Mine on the Lizard peninsular.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Copper

Formula: 
Cu
Strunz: 
1.AA.05
Crystal System: 
Isometric
Hardness: 
2.5 - 3.0