Copper

Copper – Cu
Elements: Copper
Crystal System: Cubic
Hardness: 2.5-3
Calcite
Talc (1)Diamond (10)
A copper coin can scratch it.
Origin: Chengmenshan Mine, Jiujang Co., Jiujangxi – China
Did you know?

The Lake Superior region holds native copper so pure that people were hammering it straight into tools more than 5,000 years ago, long before anyone in the world had learned to smelt metal.