A bit of Bornite

G'day all, went for a bit of a walk today to look at rocks and came across a vein of what i believe is Bornite or peacock ore.
Nothing too special but thought id share a pic or two.





And a few bits off the ground below

Very cool, thanks for posting. I think I have a small sample of that somewhere but didn't know what it was. Now I do so certainly worth sharing

Cool

Weird stuff ... Sorta looks like a petrified oil spill...

Wow, great looking sample you got there. Do the colours go right through?

Nice specimen, but I think you will find it is something like a hydrothermal haematite with a multicoloured tarnish, similar to a specimem that I have pictured below, they look very similar.

This sample was obtained from an industrial sillaminite quarry where quite a few of these hydrothermal veins were intersected, the haematite tended to coat the fractures and voids.

Interesting goldpick and nice rock.
This vein was above an old hard rock mine in what i think was a rhyolite outcrop. The vein showed no sign of magnatism and did not signal my falcon probe at all, which made me think sulphide. Was also the first thing that popped into mind.

excalibur63, the colour seems to be on most of the surface that has been exposed, though some is more just a brown colour. On one rock it is just like a skin but on other bits there is a quartz crust with the ore being the rest.

Thats pretty cool Ian, where have you been exploring?

Very nice, love the colours in the reflections