Mineral spectra and chemistry of 20 copper bearing minerals

The data set contains mineral chemical analyses of 20 different copper bearing minerals and their corresponding hyperspectral spectra. The hyperspectral data were acquired with the HySpex system in a range of 400 – 2500 nm and are presented in a spectral library. Detailed information about the mineral specimen, sample area and geochemistry is presented in the data sheets and associated data description. The spectral library presented here is part of a bigger collection of spectral libraries including samples from rare-earth minerals, rare-earth-oxides (Koerting et al., 2019a, http://doi.org/10.5880/GFZ.1.4.2019.004) and field samples from a copper-gold-pyrite mine in the Republic of Cyprus (Koerting et al., 2019b, http://doi.org/10.5880/GFZ.1.4.2019.005).