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Cuprite Psm Native Copper

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Cuprite Psm Native Copper

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Description
Locality: 
Broken Hill South Mine, Broken Hill, Yancowinna County, New South Wales, Australia
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
2 × 1.7 × 0.8 cm
Description

An unusual group of five parallel growing elongated spinel twinned native copper crystals on a small cluster of native copper crystals as matrix, the surface of the specimen is altered to paratacamite and iron stained in places. collected from the surface workings at the South Mine prior to the commencement of the Kintore Opencut.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Cuprite

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

Copper

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