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Native Copper

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Native Copper

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Description
Locality: 
Botallack Mine, St Just, Cornwall, United Kingdom
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
3.5 × 6 × 4 cm
Description

A superb old time specimen of wire copper from the Botallack Adit.

The specimen displays a bunch of interlocking wires of copper with a second generation of micro crystalline copper coated with a film of cuprite.

These specimens of wire copper are well documented and were collected in the late 1700's.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Copper

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