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Cuprite

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Description
Locality: 
Mufulira Mine, Copper Belt Province, Zambia
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
2.9 × 1.8 × 1.8 cm
Largest Crystal: 
0.90cm
Description

Superb ruby-red octahedral crystals of cuprite in a quartz matrix with some wires of native copper. The surface of the octahedra show nice re-entrant pits, that are the casts of quartz crystals, now gone.

It is from the Mufulira mine, where it was collected by Nick Eastwood, a British geologist who worked there between 1975 & 1977.

Combine specimens to reduce shipping costs!.

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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