Yellow copper ore

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a sulphide of copper and iron; copper pyrites. See Chalcopyrite.

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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co.
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Among the most remarkable specimens in this collection are green carbonate of lead with quartz, blende with twenty sided crystals and green fluors in crystals; crystallized antimony, with red blende on quartz, yellow copper ore with opal, and arseniate of copper in cubes of bright green colour.
- Is copper ore, with a thin coat of blue purple color over yellow copper ore, upon which are formed small crystals of copper ore, with prisms of six sides, and truncated ends of a bright steel color, lying fiat on the mammillary or stalactitic ore: a is one of the steel-colored crystals of copper ore, a little magnified.
Quartz was still silex to some, and yellow copper ore, for example, was yet to be named chalcopyrite.
Philip Rashleigh and his 'Specimens of British Minerals' (1797 and 1802)
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