Native Copper w/ Malachite (classic locale)

Item Description

A fantastic looking and rare style of native copper from famed Broken Hill. This biomorphic large piece looks like a marine dinosaur or dragon with a large head and teeth and starkly contrasted green malachite "scales"! The scales of the body are fairly sharp tetrahexahedral crystals, with the rest of the piece composed of euhedral to subhedral to hackly to massive/platy copper. This is certainly an exotic, colorful and rare combination style of copper from this renowned deposit. Value??