Copper, Cuprite, Malachite, Azurite
Handlebar Hill Open Cut, Hilton district, City of Mount Isa, Queensland, Australia
Copper mineralisation from the oxidised zone of Handlebar Hill. Orange native copper occurs as thin crusts along the cleavage of the shale (Similar to the 'beef jerky' copper from Ernest Henry at Cloncurry, I'm told). Dark red cuprite is present, and have complex, but very tiny and hard to image, crystal structures. Malachite and tiny blue spots ...
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