Copper Pink Native Copper in a Specimens Cut

25.41x25.03mm, Copper Pink Native Copper-Specimens MI

From Caledonia Mine in Michigan. Note the mixture of copper and other materials

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  It has a reddish, orangish, and/or brownish color on fresh surfaces, but typically is weathered and coated with a green tarnish of copper(II) carbonate (also known as patina or verdigris).

• Cost per Carat Selling Price: $ 25.41
• Native Copper Specifications:
  • Gem Species: Native metal
  • Hardness: 2.5 -
  • Density:
  • RI: -
• Size: 27.59 (L) X 19.14 (W) mm
• Cut: Specimens
• Calibrated Gemstone: No.
• Carat Weight: 0 Carats NA
• Overall Grade: None
• Clarity Description: N/A - Nothing has been defined or Clarity not able to define.
• Clarity Breakdown: Cabochon Opaque material - Has excellent clarity but show Minor flaws ,
• Cutting Breakdown: Natural cut with good proprtions, but not matching cuts.
• Carat Breakdown: No Carat Weight Assigned.
• Photo Clarity Breakdown: Color is Excellent, Image is Sharp, & Background is True.
• Photo Taken with Flash.
• Photo shows Multiple views of a single Specimen
• Pricing based on a single Specimen
• From Caledonia Mine Ontonagon Co. Michigan.
• Copper, as native copper, is one of the few metallic elements to occur in uncombined form as a natural mineral, although most commonly occurs in oxidized states and mixed with other elements. Native copper was an important ore of copper in historic times and was used by pre-historic peoples. The mines of the Keweenaw native copper deposits of Upper Michigan were major copper producers in the 19th and early 20th centuries, and are the largest deposits of native copper in the world.[6] Native Americans mined copper on a small scale,
• This wiry aggregate, shown about twice life size, formed as metal-bearing fluids worked their way into channels and pore spaces in a preexisting matrix, probably near a volcanic zone. There are many different scenarios that mobilize and redeposit copper in the upper crust. Because native copper corrodes fairly quickly at surface conditions, specimens like this don't last long (unlike gold).
• It has a reddish, orangish, and/or brownish color on fresh surfaces, but typically is weathered and coated with a green tarnish of copper(II) carbonate (also known as patina or verdigris).
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