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Copper & Quartz

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Description
Locality: 
Hettstedt Slag Locality, Mansfeld Basin, Saxony - Anhalt, Germany
Class: 
Artefact
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
8.5 × 4.5 × 2 cm
Weight: 
310.00gr
Description

This artifact is a historic brick that was part of a melting furnace. In the melting furnace, copper was extracted from copper shale. Over a longer period of time, the clay minerals of the brick were substituted by copper. Only the quartz of the brick remained. A very interesting artifact.

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Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Copper

Formula: 
Cu
Strunz: 
1.AA.05
Crystal System: 
Isometric
Hardness: 
2.5 - 3.0

Quartz

Formula: 
SiO2
Strunz: 
4.DA.05
Crystal System: 
Trigonal
Hardness: 
7.0
Streak: 
White

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