[ So you really want to know about me... You're interesting ! ]
[ Well, sit back then, take a tequila, and relax... ]
[ ...ahum, do I have your real attention? ]
[ ok then... ]
[ ... ]
[ I was born and raised in a so-called oxidation zone just under Corocoro in Bolivia's Altiplano... At first I was an Aragonite-crystal. Well, technically not even that. To be completely right I was a paramorph of Calcite after Aragonite... But calling me Aragonite was fine too... But I felt that something was wrong. It was just not me... You know that feeling? I felt like I was in the wrong body... Then something strange happend. Oxidation-fluïds rich in Copper attacked me while I was still peacefully embedded in sand/mudstone. At that time I was very close to the surface in a reduction zone, just under the water table. I was doing my thing one day, and there the fluids came... They didn't ask me anything! During that process I was replaced outside-in by elementary Copper, forming the beautiful me that I'm now. So, now they call me a Copper after Aragonite pseudomorph. Sounds weird ay? Well, that's cool for me, because I am weird. Now I'm very happy with that process, because it made me the special me that I am now. Special is a sort of 'good weird' for me, nothing negative... I have heard of friends who were like I am now, but then (probably) their rock-layer was again covered or subducted, after which they were -again- pseudomorphosed after Chalcosite (because Chalcosite needs an oxygen-free environment to form). There are also close friends of me that were again pseudomorphosed after Malachite and have Chalcophyllite crystals growing on them (I don't know any again pseudomorphosed to Azurite though, perhaps you know them?). And I have friends that were Cuprite first and then pseudomorphosed after Copper and/or Malachite. Incredible... . And... even stranger... I heard that there are people who like to play with me in their hands! Well, that's fine with me as long as they don't hurt me... ]
[ If people enjoy me, I enjoy them ]