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Native Copper

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Native Copper

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Description
Locality: 
Ale & Cakes Mine, Gwennap, Cornwall, United Kingdom
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
3 × 4.5 × 0.2 cm
Description

A thin leaf of branch like native copper with a partial coating of green verdigris.

Collected underground in the 1980's when this section of United Mines was being prospected by RTZ.

Pretty specimen.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Copper

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