e.g copper malachite, copper chrome,copper oxide pper sulphides, copper bonite
Clement, There are lots and LOTS of mine-able copper ores. There are far too many to list here... probably 50 or more. But the most common ones you will encounter are: bornite, chalcopyrite, cuprite, chalcocite, covellite, malachite, azurite, chrysocolla, and native copper. edit: Apolo: I think your answer gives too much unneeded information and is not really in the spirit of the question. This person is asking about viable copper ores, he did not ask for a list of every mineral that contains copper. I'm a professional mineralogist and I could have easily used the resources available to me to look up potentially hundreds of copper containing minerals, but no mineralogist would consider something like volborthite a viable ore of copper.
I'll try a more complete list. Look in the source links and you can learn about each mineral. Name Malachite Chemistry Cu2[(OH)2|CO3] Name Azurite Chemistry Cu3[(OH)2|CO3]2 Name Aurichalcite Chemistry (Zn,Cu)5[(OH)3|CO3]2 Arsenpolybasite (Ag,Cu)16(As,Sb)2S11 Bornite Cu5FeS4 Bournonite PbCuSbS3 Chalcopyrite CuFeS2 Chalcocite Cu2S Covellite CuS Emplectite CuBiS2 Enargite Cu3AsS4 Tennantite Cu3AsS3.25 Tetrahedrite Cu3SbS3.25 Stannite Cu2FeSnS4 Atacamite Cu2(OH)3Cl Boleite 5PbCl2·4Cu(OH)2·AgCl2·1?H2O Cuprite Cu2O Tenorite CuO Brochantite Cu4[(OH)6|SO4] Chalcanthite Cu[SO4]·5H2O Cyanotrichite Cu4Al2[(OH)12|SO4]·2H2O Devilline CaCu4[(OH)3|SO4]2·3H2O Linarite PbCu[(OH)2|SO4] Serpierite Ca(Cu,Zn)4[(OH)3|SO4]2·H2O Chalcophyllite (CuAl)3[(OH)4|(AsO4,SO4)]·6H2O Descloizite Pb(Zn,Cu)[OH|VO4] Liroconite Cu2Al[(OH)4|AsO4]·4H2O Olivenite Cu2[OH|AsO4] Torbernite Cu[UO2|PO4]2·10H2O Turquoise CuAl6[(OH)2|PO4]4·4H2O Tyrolite CaCu5[(AsO4)2|CO3|(OH)4]·6H2O Volborthite Cu3[VO4]2·3H2O
