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Cuprite On Native Copper

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Cuprite On Native Copper

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Locality: 
Teutonic Bore Mine, Ten Mile Outcamp, Leonora Shire, Western Australia, Australia
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
2 × 2 × 1.5 cm
Description

The branches of this native copper specimen rising from a red jasper matrix have been encrusted with red octahedra of cuprite.

This specimen is from the now long defunct Teutonic Bore Mine in remote Western Australia.

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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