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Native Copper & Cuprite

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Native Copper & Cuprite

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Description
Locality: 
Ghost Croft Mine, Mullion, Cornwall, United Kingdom
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
8 × 6 × 0.2 cm
Description

A beautiful specimen of plant like native copper with a partial coating of micro crystalline cuprite and attachments of chrysocolla and serpentine.

From the long abandoned Ghost Croft Mine on the Lizard Peninsular.

Cracking specimen.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Copper

Formula: 
Cu
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