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Cuprite

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Description
Locality: 
Girilambone Mine, Girilambone, Canbelego County, New South Wales, Australia
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
5 × 3.9 × 4.1 cm
Description

Perfect dark opaque octahedral crystals of cuprite on a massive cuprite matrix recovered from recent (2000) mining operations.

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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