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Cuprite On Native Copper

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Cuprite On Native Copper

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Description
Locality: 
Wheal Gorland, St Day, Cornwall, United Kingdom
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
4 × 5.5 × 2.5 cm
Description

Cuprite crystals growing on native copper with some intergrown quartz. In the vugs are numerous highly lustrous red Cuprite crystals, also some other blue and olive-greene secondary minerals (Linarite, Olivenite).

Former collection W.F.Davidson F.G.S., Castelgate, Penrith, Cumbria, England. Rare old britisch classic!

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Cuprite

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

Copper

Formula: 
Cu
Strunz: 
1.AA.05
Crystal System: 
Isometric
Hardness: 
2.5 - 3.0

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Marco Drechsel

SPK Mittelsachsen

SWIFT/BIC-Code: WELADED1FGX

IBAN: DE49 870520004111076110