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Native Silver & Cuprite

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Native Silver & Cuprite

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Description
Locality: 
Tsumeb Mine, Otavi Highlands, Namibia
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
7 × 7 × 4.5 cm
Description

Many deep red cuprite crystals on silver and acanthite impregnated matrix. The arrow spots the location for the silver in crystals. Other associated minerals are wulfenite and mimetite. 

Comes with an old label from 1974. 

 

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Silver

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

Cuprite

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