Covellite with Enargite, Pyrite, Malachite, Quartz
specimen number:
3671127
location:
Leonard mine, Butte, Silver Bow Co., Montana, USA
description: Attractive platy metallic blue crystals of covellite to 0.7 cm in size across the top of this matrix with enargite, pyrite, minor malachite, and quartz. Typical of these there is very slight micro-chipping present, this one in really good condition. Said to have come from the very early days of production at this mine.
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