Island Copper Mine, Port Hardy, Nanaimo Mining Division, Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada
Sample is 4 cm x 4 cm Purple Dumortierite and tan Pyrophyllite occur in the alteration sequence of a porphyry copper deposit on Vancouver Island.
2.5 x 2.5 x 1.5 cm
© Maggie Wilson
A 3.5 by 2.5 cms mass with bluish Dumortierite. JSS specimen and photo.
View of open pit, August, 1979. Flickr photo by Robert Ciavarro (scanned from slide).
© Robert Ciavarro