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Tenorite Calcite On Native Copper

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Tenorite Calcite On Native Copper

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Description
Locality: 
Mount Elliott Mine, Selwyn District, Cloncurry Shire, Queensland, Australia
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
7.4 × 5.7 × 5.2 cm
Description

A handsized cluster of branching native copper crystals that has been encrusted with black tenorite with small off white calcite crystals and crusts and small crystal of blue ktenasite and green paratacamite

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Tenorite

Formula: 
CuO
Strunz: 
4.AB.10
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic
Hardness: 
3.5
Streak: 
Black
Type Locality: 
Mt Vesuvius, Somma-Vesuvius Complex, Naples Province, Campania, Italy

Calcite

Polymorph of: 
Formula: 
CaCO3
Strunz: 
5.AB.05
Crystal System: 
Trigonal
Hardness: 
3.0
Streak: 
White

Copper

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

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