Was in Gilbert, AZ doing a facebook market place meet when we drove by a dumpster with a box lying in front with a flowerpot on top. We stopped to pick up the pot and found these stones inside the box : ) Knew the turquoise but don’t know what the light purple layered with pyrite is, and thinking, after googling, the two on the left maybe copper ore. The metal throughout stones is a dark copper color with a couple chunks of gold colored.
I sprayed the group pic with water to show the colors. Also, including a dry pic of the “copper ore?” and dry look at the lightest blue turquoise -I’ve always loved the light blue : )
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Can’t beat the price of dumpster diving. Great find @singing .
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Only in AZ! Certainly wouldn’t find that in a box outside here 
Pretty cool.
You might be right on the copper, but I’m not sure. We travel to Michigan a lot, and the UP (Upper Peninsula) was known for its copper mines; actually the copper mines in Southern AZ pretty much helped put the nail in the coffin for the UP copper mines. Anyway, I have bought a number of polished float copper pieces up there, but hadn’t really seen the rough until this past Labor Day weekend. There was a gentleman at an outdoor farmers market in MI who had a bunch of fun rocks, and he had some rough copper. If I remember right, it looked a lot like what you have.
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: ) lol yep that’s the truth.
Thanks for the info Ziacat.
Probably saving at least the Turquoise for the grandkids. Does anyone here know if there is chance of chemical exposure if they came from a mine? Probably a dum question lol -I know nothing about raw Turquoise or any stones found in big mining.
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Whoah that’s awesome, congrats!
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Some of it looks like copper ore.
A few years ago a friend gave me a car load of her parents rock collection. They traveled the country collecting rocks. He was also a lapidary artist.
Most of the items my friend gave me were well labeled. Location, date, and name (if known).
Here is part of a group that was labeled. Copper Ore. Michigan UP. 1982.
Does any of it look similar to what you found?
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I see some similarly.
It’s funny with generations of rock collecting in AZ to just now see copper in stone. Thanks for the pictures : )
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It was weird to me to see it, also! I had only seen it polished in chunks.
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