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Can anyone tell me what this is? To me it looks like copper in it metal form, at least in colour.

It was all through a big chunk of very mineralised quartz.

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Looks like a little bit of gold surrounded by dissolved pyrite in quartz.

But i know very little and just taking a stab at it,Im likely completely wrong.
Looks like an interesting bit though.
 
Looks like arsenopyrite on quartz to me, try scratching the pyrite with a knife, if it gives off a garlic type odour then it will most likely be arsenopyrite. As LC76 said though it is some type of pyrite.
 
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