🔎 UNIDENTIFIED Need help identifying this rock specimen

[Pocketts]

Need help to identify this specimen please??

 

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[pepperj]

Where approx. was it found, State/country?

 

[Kray Gelder]

I'll identify it as a painted rock. Probably from an aquarium.

 

[Blackfoot58]

I'll identify it as a painted rock. Probably from an aquarium.

I can picture a little diver beside it and a treasure chest on the other side.

 

[Kray Gelder]

I can picture a little diver beside it and a treasure chest on the other side.

Bubbles, too.

 

[Kray Gelder]

Maybe a clam/bubbler, with the shiny pearl in it.

 

[Pocketts]

Need help to identify this specimen please??

Wow ,so I'll start with this came out of a mine in neveda and I believe it to be copper and I'm not to sure what else. This is a big piece and definitely not an aquarium rock!!

 

[CaptEsteban]

The pictures are poor , but I think it is probably what is typically called, " Peacock Ore."

Bornite: A mineral, an ore of copper, often called "peacock ore"

Uses, properties and geologic occurrence of bornite, an ore of copper found in igneous and metamorphic rocks in many parts of the world.

geology.com

 

[tamrock]

I think we need the likes of a Nick Tate to join in and help explain all the rocks showing up here anymore 🤔

 

[Kray Gelder]

This is why I say painted. Uniform color across the surface of cracks, bumps, bits of debris and grains of sand. High points are knocked off to reveal the underlying layer of paint. Chips show color of natural rock. I have been wrong before, and if you say it came out of a mine, I won't contradict you.

 

[Pocketts]

Thx the mystery is solved. I appreciate all the help identifying my bornite rock / AKA peacock ore.
Bornite is a copper iron sulfide mineral with a chemical composition of Cu5FeS4. It occurs in igneous, metamorphic, and sedimentary rocks. Minable concentrations of bornite occur in hydrothermal veins, contact metamorphic zones, and in the enriched zone of many sulfide mineral deposits.

Chalcopyrite, marcasite, and pyrite are other sulfide minerals commonly associated with bornite. Small amounts of bornite are also found disseminated through mafic igneous rocks and carbonaceous shales.

 

[Kray Gelder]

Here are few more examples of bornite...

 

[Back-of-the-boat]

Here are few more examples of bornite...

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I found some in a mine in Southern California it is in my cabinet.

 

[Pocketts]

I found some in a mine in Southern California it is in my cabinet.

I also found these as well