Moving mountains for you
Switch currency

Current Live Auctions

Current Live Fixed Price Sales

Native Copper & Nantokite

Views:
Watches:
PJM60216

Native Copper & Nantokite

Ex Jon Mommers Ex M Newnham Collections

Description Tabs

Description
Locality: 
Mount Isa, Mount Isa City Shire, Queensland, Australia
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
1.5 × 5 × 3.4 cm
Description

An interesting and attractive group of native copper crystals from the 4 level of the Mt Isa mines with a reddish brown patina, areas of the specimen have a coating of nantockite and some reminent skeleton quartz.

Specimen is from the Jon Mommers Collection and previously from the Michael Newnham Collection

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Copper

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

Nantokite

Formula: 
CuCl
Strunz: 
3.AA.05
Crystal System: 
Isometric
Hardness: 
2.0 - 2.5
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Carmen Bajo Mine, Nantoko, Copiapó Province, Atacama Region, Chile
Earthstones Australia

Seller Information

Payment options: offline, paypal_wpp, paypal_wps

Seller's terms and conditions

All goods must be paid for prior to shipping, all bids are binding.