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Native Copper

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Native Copper

w/cuprite

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Description
Locality: 
Old Gunnislake Mine, Calstock, Cornwall, United Kingdom
Class: 
Massive/Crystalline
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
5 × 5 × 3 cm
Weight: 
97.00gr
Description

Polished section  - thin vein of native copper intimately mixed with cuprite(v. "tile ore") in a chrysocolla/altered quartz matrix

Unusual specimen from the classic Cornish torbernite locality

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Copper

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

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