A Geoscience Digital Image Library
A Geoscience Digital Image Library
| Title | Native copper and silver on bedding planes |
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| Description | This is a slab (11 cm wide) of a fine grained sedimentary rock. Native copper (reddish, near top of photo) and native silver (small silvery near bottom left hand corner) were deposited on bedding planes by circulating ground waters. The sample comes from near White Pine, Michigan. Coppper was mined at White Pine in the mid 19th century. Silver was a valuable secondary product. |
| Location | USA ▹ Michigan. Near White Pine. |
| Photographer | Darla Sondrol. 2001-06-25. |
| Collection | University of North Dakota Mineralogy Collection #22. |
| Key words | native copper, silver, Michigan |
| Tech details | 735 KB. Hand specimen. Fujifilm FinePix S1Pro digital camera; 60mm AF Nikon micro lens. |
| GeoDIL number | 857 |
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