A place for:
Minerals are cool, too.
Be gneiss to each other
Please use posts for your rocks. Feel free to add more pictures and links to articles in the post text.
This place is building up fast and looking for another mod, someone who:
Don't remember where I found it but it's cool!
I love copper bearing minerals! They make some of my favorite colored minerals!
Dioptase:
Azurite:
Good ol Malachite:
The first thing I thought of when seeing yours was chrysocolla but I'm not totally convinced.
Could be malachite
Chrysocolla.
Very cool.
Copper ore?
Is it magnetic? Radioactive? Fluorescent?
I had a mineralogy professor that was notorious for giving lab practicals that would consist of wonky specimens of similar/exact same colors. So ID from physical appearance was not a good option. You had to rely on all the other properties for identification.
Yeah, it's always best to examine a sample in all the ways you can. Especially radioactivity.