Sample / copper oxide, black / iron pyrites

Description

One of a collection of raw and manufactured products from the Great Exhibition of 1851 - a sample of black oxide of copper and iron pyrites from the Burra Burra Mines, South Australia

Museum reference

T.1858.270.168

Collection

Technology

Object name

Sample / copper oxide, black / iron pyrites

Date

1851

Physical description

Black copper oxide, iron pyrites

Associations

Great Exhibition
Burra Burra Mines, Burra, South Australia, Australia, Australasia