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CU NATIF [1 record]

Record 1 2006-05-30

English

Subject field(s)
  • Chemistry
  • Geochemistry
  • Copper Mining
DEF

Metallic copper, sometimes containing a little silver and bismuth, occurs as a metasomatic deposit filling cracks and forming the cement of sandstone and conglomerate ...

OBS

[Native copper] crystallizes in the cubic system.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Chimie
  • Géochimie
  • Mines de cuivre
CONT

Cuivre natif. Déjà un peu plus fréquent que le fer; en certains gisements, on peut le rencontrer associé avec certains de ses minerais [...] Très mou [...], très dense [...], d'une belle couleur rouge-cuivre sous le trait du couteau, on le décèlera très aisément. Il est toujours altéré en surface en vert-de-gris, association complexe où dominent azurite et malachite, avec de la cuprite.

Spanish

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