Chrysocolla Photos        
Cochise College               
Photos of Minerals
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Roger Weller, geology instructor

wellerr@cochise.edu    copyright 2016-R.Weller

 
chrysocolla breccia-3
Morenci pit, Arizona
A breccia is a shattered rock, often found along a fault zone, where the rock
fragments have been cemented together by a mineral deposited from a solution
moving along the fault.  Here the cement is chrysocolla.
 

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