mineral general info

Chalcopyrite

Unusual 4 mm prismatic crystal on dolomite with cinnabar

Origin: Gortdrum Mine, Co. Tipperary, Ireland

Owner: Steve Rust

Chalcopyrite crystals to 2 mm on quartz encrusted fluorite

Origin: Blackdene Mine, Ireshopeburn, Weardale, North Pennines, Co. Durham, England, UK

Owner: Steve Rust

5 mm crystal group with greenish blue iridescence, on quartz

Origin: Wheal Basset, Redruth, Illogan, Cornwall, England, UK

Owner: Steve Rust

1 mm crystal on pyrite

Origin: Hampstead Farm Quarry, Chipping Sodbury district, Gloucestershire, England, UK

Owner: Steve Rust

Chalcopyrite crystals to 2 mm, with calcite on analcime

Origin: Croft quarry, Croft, Leicestershire, England, UK

Owner: Steve Rust

6 mm crystal on dolomite

Origin: East Blackcraig mine; West Blackcraig mine, Blackcraig, Kirkcudbrightshire, Dumfries & Galloway, Scotland, UK

Owner: Steve Rust

3 mm crystal on quartz

Origin: Hendre Felen Mine, Ysbyty Ystwyth, Ceredigion (Dyfed; Cardiganshire), Wales, UK

Owner: Steve Rust

Photo courtesy of:

Steve Rust

Chalcopyrite on sphalerite with quartz

Origin: Huaron Mine, Cerro de Pasco Prov., Peru

Sample size: 6.5 x 6 x 2.5 cm

Chalcopyrite with siderite

Origin: Alice Glory Hole, Clear Creek County, Colorado, U.S.A.

Sample size: 4.5 x 3.7 x 2.5 cm

Chalcopyrite on carrollite

Origin: Kamoto Fond Mine, Shaba Province, Zaire
collected late in 2001

Sample size: 2.5 x 2 x 2 cm

Photo courtesy of:

Rob Lavinsky

The Arkenstone

Chalcopyrite with quartz

Origin: Huanzala mine, Huanuco Department, Peru

Sample size: 23 x 28 mm

Chalcopyrite twin with quartz

Origin: Fengjiashan Mine (Daye Copper mine), Daye, Huangshi area, Hubei, Central South Region, China

Sample size: 6 x 6 x 6.7 cm

Chalcopyrite on quartz

Origin: Groundhog Mine, Lordsburg, New Mexico, U.S.A.

Sample size: 8.5 cm wide

Origin: La Bufa, Chihuahua, Mexico

Sample size: 30 x 24 x 19 mm

Photo courtesy of:

Dan Weinrich

Dealer in fine mineral specimens