Description: Chalcocite coating pyrite Spence Mine, 45 km south of Chuquicamata, El Loa Province, Chile 13 cm Porphyry cut by quartz-pyrite veins with a thin coating of black chalcocite or djurliete on the pyrite. Both in the veins and as dissemination in the porphyry

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