Malachite

specimen number:
2063060

location:
Rum Jungle, Coomalie Shire, Northern Territory, Australia

description:

Attractive botryoidal velvety crystallized malachite across the front of matrix. In good condition. The specimen comes with a previous label from the collection of Ray DeMark. Classic Australian locality.

The geology of Rum Jungle features a core of Archaean granitic complexes surrounded by Palaeoproterozoic metasedimentary rocks, hosting significant mineral deposits along unconformity boundaries. Historically, the area became famous as one of Australia's earliest and most prominent mining centers, shifting from small-scale gold and copper ventures in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries to large-scale uranium and copper production between 1953 and 1971. Mineral collecting and intensive government-backed extraction left a profound industrial footprint, making the site a well-known historical reference for both resource extraction and subsequent environmental rehabilitation.

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