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Covellite On Native Copper

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Covellite On Native Copper

Ex Jose Rees

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Description
Locality: 
Proprietary Mine, Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
2.3 × 3.6 × 2.1 cm
Description

Native copper crystals with a patina ranging from brown through red and to green hosts numerous micro clusters of covellite, which are dark metallic blue in colour.

The specimen has a core of anglesite and cerussite and the copper has somewhat small but well defined crystals in branching groups

Ex Jose Rees Collection (Sydney)

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Covellite

Formula: 
CuS
Strunz: 
2.CA.05a
Crystal System: 
Hexagonal
Hardness: 
1.5 - 2.0
Type Locality: 
Mt Vesuvius, Somma-Vesuvius Complex, Naples Province, Campania, Italy

Copper

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

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