Copper Photos
Cochise College               
Photos of Minerals
Geology Home Page

Roger Weller, geology instructor

[email protected]     copyright 2011-R.Weller 

 
copper skull-1
Centennial Mine, Centennial, Houghton County, Michigan
The skull shape is created when the copper is deposited around
a rounded boulder within a conglomerate.  At a later time the

boulder is weathered away, leaving just the copper. 


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Photo is copyright free for non-commercial educational uses.
Just credit photo to R.Weller/Cochise College
 

from the A.L. Flagg collection