Durgy Mine, Person County, North Carolina, USA
Field with 6x5cm - April of 2010
© Martins da Pedra photo & collection
Dark blue-gray metallic Bornite, 3cm by 5cm. Collected by Richard Gillespie. Rolf Luetcke specimen and photo.
Person County, North Carolina, USA
Green malachite crystals on iron oxide stained quartz. Only the county was listed on the label as to locality. Rolf Luetcke specimen and photo.
Rare crystals of azurite from North Carolina with sprays of malachite and prisms of cerussite.
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"Shaft No. 1, Yancey Mine". Source: Watson, T.L. (1902) Copper-Bearing Rocks of the Virgilina Copper District, Bull. GSA 13, 358-376.