The largest copper deposit ive ever seen

[Chuckerton]

Its beautiful

I dont even want to mine it, i just want to gaze upon its beauty when i go get limestone. Its all bountiful, so 70 units of copper per rock. Im not sure if this is the only layer or if it goes down more, i havent looked. Just on the top layer, 67 bountiful blocks of copper ore that I count, for 234 copper ingots i could make out of it. 

I discovered it looking for limestone chunks to make lime out of for plaster, and then I see copper chunks strewn about absolutely everywhere. Deep deposits might be bigger, i dont really know, but this is just a surface deposit, so the fact that its this large is crazy. 

[Maelstrom]

Malachite IS beautiful!  Deep deposits are typically bigger and can be two blocks thick.  Surface malachite can spawn in similarly large deposits.  In one of my 1.17 worlds I had a massive surface malachite deposit that was even bigger than what you picture that was two blocks thick.  That one deposit got me through an extended bronze age as well.

[Thorfinn]

I'd be half tempted to quarry as much as I could to use as building material. So while they wait in my green room, they say, "Dude, this is bountiful malachite!" and the interview goes more respectfully as they are still in awe of the conspicuous consumption.

[Chuckerton]

Finally just decided to mine it, and it did go down a few layers! I got a total of 124 bountiful chunks. 

My initial math was wrong though, 67 bountiful blocks of copper does not make 234 copper ingots. I got that by multiplying 67 x 70 to get the amount of units of copper, but instead of dividing it by 100, which is the amount needed to make an ingot, i divided it by 20 because it takes 20 nuggets to make 1 ingot and I got mixed up. I was so distracted by the beauty of the glorious copper deposit that I had forgotten how to calculate my ores as a smith. With my first calculation i wouldve actually gotten almost 47 ingots, which is still respectable. 

Not to mention, i wouldve only gotten 70 units per block if each block dropped a crystalized chunk, which none of them did, so its only 35 per, but because i mined basically twice as many blocks as i thought i would, I ended up with a similar amount, enough for 43 ingots. And such the legend of this really big deposit has come to a close. 

[Hrungle]

Woa. Ive never seen a surface deposit yet.(other than Quartz)