What is it? Is this turquoise or copper or what can someone please help

[Kindle77]

So we went to the place that were so called turquoise mines on the outskirts of Joshua Tree California mind out some of these rocks ourselves lot of them are greenish some of them are bright blue some of them have veins some of them do not does anybody know how to tell if this is copper or not the easy way thanks for your help in advance

 

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[Argentium]

Nice finds ! Looks like mostly malachite to me , but i think there are some with azurite , and some of the more saturated blues stones may be turquoise - close ups ,and posting in the rock forum will help you.

 

[Kindle77]

Ty

Awesome! At least thats a good start. Now i will post sone more pics on the rock forums and see if i can have a better idea of what to go looking for next time im out there ty again

 

[RustyGold]

Looks like chrysocolla a greenish-blue mineral consisting of hydrated copper silicate, typically occurring as opaline crusts and masses.