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Calcite on Copper

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Carol & Karl Warning
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Calcite on copper, 9 cm, from the Keweenaw Peninsula, Michigan. Joe Budd photo.

Product details

Species
Copper, CalciteAbout Copper →
SizeSmall Cabinet
Dimensions9.0 cm
Added on02/13/2026
Locality
USA, Michigan, Keweenaw PeninsulaRegional guide →
Publications
  • Mineralogical Record Mineral Collecting In Texas page 263

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Copper
Mineral guide
Learn about Copper
native copper with spinel-twinned crystals and arborescences; notable from Lake Superior, Itauz, Dongchuan, Corocoro, prized for color and localities.
Copper
Regional guide
Copper from Keweenaw Peninsula, Michigan, USA
The Keweenaw Peninsula is the classic native-copper locality: a place where copper was not merely an ore mineral locked in sulfides, but the metal itself—dense, malleable, and often sculptural—precipitated as copper, Cu, in billion-year-old volcanic rocks. For collectors, “Keweenaw copper” is a category unto itself. It can appear as wiry arborescent sprays, thick hackly sheets, crystal groups with sharp metallic faces, rounded glacial float nuggets, massive vein copper, copper-filled amygdules in basalt, and copper in conglomerate where the metal laces between volcanic pebbles.