20326 - Top Beautiful 1.98 Inch Irregular Native Copper - Bou Nahas (South Morocco) Mosasaurus hoffmanni Subtaxa: Micraster (Gibbaster)

Subtaxa: Micraster (Gibbaster)

Haluza et al

Some of them have glued and tiny filled fractures

The pathological deformations in this species and in this place are well known

20326 - Top Beautiful 1.98 Inch Irregular Native Copper - Bou Nahas (South Morocco) Mosasaurus hoffmanni Subtaxa: Micraster (Gibbaster)Native copper is an uncombined form of copper that occurs as a natural mineral. Copper is one of the few metallic elements to occur in native form, although it most commonly occurs in oxidized states and mixed with other elements. Native copper was an important ore of copper in historic times and was used by pre historic peoples. Native copper occurs rarely as isometric cubic and octahedral crystals, but more typically as irregular masses and fracture