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Cuprite

With Antique Label

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Description
Locality: 
(Urals), Russian Federation
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
4 × 3.6 × 2.6 cm
Largest Crystal: 
0.80cm
Description

This historical specimen features deep red octahedral crystals of cuprite, with good lustre, on an oxides-rich matrix (limonite?). The old original label, written in French, reads “Ziguéline”, the old name given in 1832 by François Beudant, changed to cuprite in 1845 by Wilhelm Karl Ritter von Haidinger. The given locality “Mounts Urals” is not concise, but considering the age of the specimen and its characteristics it could certainly be from the Nizhnii Tagil area.

This beautiful specimen was the #A280 of the Jozef Cosemans collection (Ex. Chief Metallurgist at the Zinc smelter of Vieille-Montagne in Balen (BE).

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Cuprite

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

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