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Cuprite

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Description
Locality: 
Phoenix United Mine, Minions, Linkinhorne, Cornwall, United Kingdom
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
3.3 × 3.1 × 1.7 cm
Description

Very rich specimen featuring dozens of red cubic crystals of cuprite of incredible transparency, and arranged as a stair on a botryoidal goethite-rich matrix. The brightness is very good and some crystals have well developed cube-octahedral habit.

Acquired in the late 1970’s by Ludo Van Goethem.

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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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