A Geoscience Digital Image Library
A Geoscience Digital Image Library
| Title | Bornite from Tasmania |
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| Description | This sample, about 7 cm across, contains primarily bornite. Minor quartz can also be seen. Bornite is typically brown or black when fresh, but it easily tarnishes and gains a purply blue color. Sometimes it is referred to as “peacock ore” because of its coloration. Bornite is a common copper bearing mineral, and is often an ore of copper. |
| Location | Australia ▹ Tasmania. Near Gormanston. |
| Photographer | Darla Sondrol. 2001-07-11. |
| Collection | University of North Dakota Mineralogy Collection #108. |
| Key words | bornite, Tasmania |
| Tech details | 694 KB. Hand specimen. Fujifilm FinePix S1Pro digital camera; 60mm AF Nikon micro lens. |
| GeoDIL number | 1134 |
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