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Cuprite

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Cuprite

Collected by John & Robert Lawson
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Description
Locality: 
New Cliffe Hill Quarry, Stanton under Bardon, Leicestershire, United Kingdom
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
2.3 × 1.9 × 1 cm
Weight: 
10.00gr
Description

Cuprite matrix with vugs lined with lustrous small cuprite crystals. Unfortunately the 'copper lode' from which this specimen came was blasted and removed back in the 1990's and no further copper mineralisation has been found since.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Cuprite

Formula: 
Cu2O
Strunz: 
4.AA.10
Crystal System: 
Isometric
Hardness: 
3.5 - 4.0

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