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Native Copper Cuprite & Brochantite

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Native Copper Cuprite & Brochantite

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Description
Locality: 
Wheal Phoenix, Linkinhorne, Cornwall, United Kingdom
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
3.1 × 2.5 × 2.1 cm
Description

Bright native copper crystals and hacky masses of crystalline copper are haloed by rich bloody red cuprite and groups of brochantite crystals in cavities in a tough quartz matrix

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

Brochantite

Formula: 
Cu4(SO4)(OH)6
Strunz: 
7.BB.25
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic
Hardness: 
3.5 - 4.0
Type Locality: 
Mednorudyanskoye Cu Deposit, Nizhnii Tagil, Sverdlovskaya Oblast', Middle Urals, Urals Region, Russia...
Earthstones Australia

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