how many copper ore varieties are there?

Question

e.g copper malachite, copper chrome,copper oxide.copper sulphides, copper bonite

Answer 1

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.

Answer 2

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·AgCl2·1½H2O

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