Sample / copper sulphuret / peacock ore

Description

One of a collection of raw and manufactured products from the Great Exhibition of 1851 - a sample of peacock ore or sulphuret of copper from the Burra Burra Mines, South Australia

Museum reference

T.1858.270.204

Collection

Technology

Object name

Sample / copper sulphuret / peacock ore

Date

1851

Materials

Copper, Sulphur

Physical description

Copper sulphuret (peacock ore)

Associations

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