Cubfan64
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- Feb 13, 2006
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- Fisher CZ21, Teknetics T2 & Minelab Sovereign GT
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- All Treasure Hunting
I'd like to say I found this, and I suppose I did, but it was left by the previous owners of our house high up on a windowsill. They must have left it by accident or just decided not to pack up a "rock."
No clue where they found it, but it's the first time I've seen copper (in malachite form which Cu2CO3(OH)2.
I'm phenomenally lucky in that I work in an Analytical laboratory where I have access to some very good analysts and some EXPENSIVE equipment (TEM's, SEM's, FTIR, XRD, etc...) and it only took a couple minutes to discern that the copper is in the form of malachite here.
Every time I look at it, I can just imagine what prospectors feel like when they stumble across a quartz outcropping with gold in a vein just like the copper is in this.
No clue where they found it, but it's the first time I've seen copper (in malachite form which Cu2CO3(OH)2.
I'm phenomenally lucky in that I work in an Analytical laboratory where I have access to some very good analysts and some EXPENSIVE equipment (TEM's, SEM's, FTIR, XRD, etc...) and it only took a couple minutes to discern that the copper is in the form of malachite here.
Every time I look at it, I can just imagine what prospectors feel like when they stumble across a quartz outcropping with gold in a vein just like the copper is in this.
