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Mineral Specimens with Copper
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A super-elegant, branching specimen of penny-bright copper from a CLASSIC old Michigan copper-country mine, the White Pine. Specimens of this size and quality from the White Pine are very hard to obtain these days! Ex. Richard Hauck Collection. 6.2 x 4.1 x 1.5cm
A completely crystallized specimen of copper from the Itauz mine in Russia, wihc produced some of the world''s best copper specimen for a few years there. The mine is now NOT producing any more copper specimens, but it is hoped it will produce again in the future, as the strip mine widens and comes back around again to the specimen-producing zone. 4.1 x 3.1 x 1.6cm
An excellent, CABINET copper specimen with nice patina and a bit of malachite from a MOST UNCOMMON PENNSYLVANIA locality, the Greenstone Quarry at Blue Ridge Summit. This is a fine piece from a recent, small find. 12.0 x 5.2 x 4.3 cm
An OLD-TIME, sliced slab of a vein of spinel-twinned copper crystals and quartz from the famous Copper Queen Mine at Bisbee. The side with the yellowed label has been lacquered. This piece has to be around 100 years old or more. Such rich copper ore is very rare from Bisbee and this is thus an interesting historic slice of the mine, no pun intended! Ex Richard Hauck Collection. 8.9 x 6.9 x 0.6 cm
A SHOWY, old-time, Michigan Copper Country CABINET specimen of tiny, sharp and lustrous, tetrahexahedral copper crystals to 2 mm on preferentially-coated, translucent and lustrous, botryoidal, pastel-green prehnite on matrix. RARE MATERIAL, indeed! If not for the tiny associated copper you would NEVER guess Michigan could produce such beautiful large masses of prehnite. I certainly had never known. From the Ernie Schlichter collection 10.0 x 7.2 x 5.5 cm
A RARE, VERY LARGE copper cube, 1.6 x 1.6 cm, with a nice patina and with copper and matrix from the famous Minesota Mine of Michigan. The large crystal could be opened up and exposed with a little bit of work. 6.8 x 6.0 x 4.8 cm
A fine "feather" of copper, crystallized from top to bottom, from the Itauz mine in Russia. The mine is now NOT producing any more copper specimens. It is hoped it will produce again in the future, as the strip mine widens, but there is no assurance of this. And, in any case, the last batch of specimens that came out was more "brushy" in appearance and did not include these superb herringbone-patterned feathers or fine spinel-twinned specimens. 3.9 x 0.9 x 0.2cm
A HUGE specimen of native copper, extremely sculptural, with a fine antique patina! This is just an amazing copper specimen in that it combines prodigious size with real elegance! And, it is not flimsy at all, but quite substantial. This very significant old Michigan specimen is sure to get a ton of attention wherever it is displayed! 51.3 x 10.4 x 2.3cm
A SHOWY and excellent combination piece from Michigans famous Copper Country of antler-like, spinel-twinned, silver crystals with a flat plate of copper with a very nice patina. Interspersed milky quartz nicely sets off the native metals. This fine piece was recovered from Lake Superior and hails from the Richard Hauck Collection. 6.7 x 4.2 x 3.0 cm
A VERY AESTHETIC, classic, old-time specimen of cuprite-coated, dendritic, spinel-twinned copper crystals from the famous Champion Mine of Michigan. This piece has some of VERY BEST, classic, dendritic growth patterns that I have ever seen on a copper specimen from any mine. The stem or trunk copper crystal runs the entire length of the piece and the cuprite-enhanced patina is excellent. Ex Kevin Brown Collection. It is utterly classic for the locale in terms of structure and crystallography 6.6 x 3.8 x 3.2 cm
A beautiful, aesthetic, elongate, two-sided copper specimen of dendritic, spinel-twinned copper crystals with a nice patina from the classic Champion Mine. The dendritic pattern of the sharp, spinel-twinned crystals is outstanding. CHOICE material from the Marty Lewadny Collection. NOTE that this started the weekend labelled as Mufulira Mine, Copperbelt Province, Zambia as this label was with the piece, but Marty contacted me when he saw it and made the corrrection himself so i am confident of the change to the now-indicated locale. 4.2 x 2.4 x 1.8 cm
A striking, showy, old-time slab of lustrous, massive, native copper in porphyritic rhyolite from the lesser-known Kingston Lode of Michigan Copper Country. The slab comes with two old labels, including one affixed to the back of the slab. The exhibit face has been sprayed with lacquer to improve presentation, which is nomal for polished specimens of this type. Ex Richard Hauck Collection. Kingston lode copper in "jasper" is not true jasper, but in actuality is a porphyritic rhyolite (check through Marc Wilson in Min Rec Special Edition). 7.4 x 6.0 x 0.9 cm
A fine herringbone "feather" of copper, crystallized from top to bottom, from the Itauz mine in Russia. The mine is now NOT producing any more copper specimens. It is hoped it will produce again in the future, as the strip mine widens, but there is no assurance of this. And, in any case, the last batch of specimens that came out was more "brushy" in appearance and did not include these superb herringbone-patterned feathers or fine spinel-twinned specimens. 3.9 x 1.6 x 0.1cm
VERY SPECIAL MINIATURE!!!! Is this not a fantastic copper-with -calcite! You have this wonderful euhedral calcite crystal richly included with copper - and sitting right on top of it, a "tree" of completely crystallized native copper! This is a rare and unique piece from the Onganja! 5.1 x 3.6 x 1.7cm
A substantial shell or "skull" of copper from the classic old Adventure Mine locality, out of the Hauck Collection - and before that in the "private museum" of Fred Ashman (see old label). The label shows this piece to have come from the 28th level of the mine. Crystallization is quite evident in most areas on the concave display side of this specimen. 7.3 x 5.2 x 4.5cm
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