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Mineral Specimens with Cuprite
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A striking and showy specimen of blood-red, soft, hair-like, lustrous chalcotrichite needles richy covering both sides of crystallized copper from the famous Emke Mine at Onganja, Namibia. Chalcotrichite is an uncommon, fibrous variety of cuprite. These fine, old-time pieces probably came out in the 1960s or early 70s. 3.3 x 2.6 x 1.7 cm
A very metallic, large cuprite crystal, showing internal gemminess and transparency when backlit (they cut large, ruby-red gems from such crystals!). This is a rather large single crystal, and has excellent form on the frontal faces, though it is contacted on the backside. So , it displays like it should be worth much more, since you do not see the rough backside, and the front is so beautiful an example of this material. These are no longer coming out of the mines, for a number of reasons having to do as much with the society and politics there as the actual mines themselves. 3.4 x 3.3 x 2.3 cm
Very unusual locality thumbnail but also an interesting replacement!. 2.5 x 2.2 x 2 cm
superb thumb coppe r- MUCH better in person! sharp,small xls 2.4 x 2.1 x 1.5 cm
An EXCELLENT, SHOWY and rich old-time Utah specimen of lustrous, massive, deep blood-red cuprite in brecciated chrysocolla from the Lucin District of Box Elder County. Ex Richard Hauck Collection. Never seen one for sale before at any price 5.7 x 3.7 x 3.0 cm
An AESTHETIC, arborescent, thumbnail cluster of lustrous, cuprite-coated, spinel-twiined copper crystals with a bit of malachite from the famous Emke Mine of Namibia. 2.3 x 1.9 x 1.3 cm
An exquisite specimen, with SHARP, METALLIC< fiery red cuprite crystals perched on sharp, elongated copper cyrstals. Copper of this quality is extremely uncommon for Tsumeb. Cuprite more so in any kind of good cubic form, let alone with such lustre! The combo....seen only a few times, in small pockets. This is an exceptional competition-quality miniature. It is MUCH better in person, too. 5.2 x 3.2 x 1.5 cm
An OLD-TIME, massive specimen of sponge-like, vein copper coated with cuprite from the famous Bergmannstrost Mine, Bad Ems District, Germany. The Mineralogical Record article on the Bad Ems District, Vol. 15, No. 6 helped to identify the mine. This material was mined in 1875 and this is a significant, rich, weighty specimen! 7.1 x 6.8 x 2.0 cm
This group of octahedral cuprite crystals is simply outstanding for the locality! The largest crystal measures 1.0 cm across and the plate is rich and covered with such high-quality crystals on both sides. I am told that these were mined prior to the 1870s and are very rare. The only specimen I had previously seen of this material from the collection of Sir Robert Ferguson (1769-1840) and was considered an incredible rarity at the time we had it in 1998. This is an exceptionally rare specimen from an important old locality! It is impossible to find on the market todya, I would say. 6.9 x 5.6 x 1.7 cm
An old Bisbee classic - an intricate cluster of crystallized copper richly covered with cuprite crystals! These old Bisbee pieces are just so hard to get these days! 5.6 x 5.4 x 3.7cm
An EXCELLENT and SCULPTURAL specimen of sharp, cuprite-coated, tetrahexahedral and dentritic, spinel-twinned copper crystals from the famous Ray Mine of Arizona. A fine, old-time piece. Ex Edna Doughty and Richard Hauck Collections. A mesmerizing piece in person, with much complexity , and very 3-dimensional 5.5 x 4.0 x 2.6 cm
A rich and showy specimen of lustrous, solid cuprite from Tsumeb. The piece has blood-red to rust-brown, well-crystallized to crudely crystallized cuprite crystals to 8 mm in a groundmass of massive cuprite. VERY RICH copper ore! 9.6 x 5.7 x 4.0 cm
A CLASSIC, sculptural, old-time Cornwall specimen of a vug filled with GEMMY, dark cherry-red cuprite crystals to 6 mm from the famous Wheal Phoenix. Ex A.G. Moss Collection. This is very rare material and although there are spots of damage here and there, there is also quite good coverage of superb crystals of the highest quality, scaterred liberally. 5.0 x 2.7 x 2.6 cm
This is a unique specimen of intergrown copper and cuprite forming a large stalactite, with crystals of both seemingly intermixed but with cuprite the predominant mineral showing on the surface. The color is thus a deep red hue in good lighting, and it is much more attractive than appears in the photos. The piece is complete all around and 3-dimensional! It came out of the first collection of Dr. Ed David. 10.5 x 3.7 x 2.6 cm
An aesthetic, sculptural and undamaged floater specimen of arborescent, spinel-twinned copper crystals from the famed Broken Hill deposit of Australia. The longest copper crystal is 3.0 cm. The partial red cuprite coating adds a very nice distinctiveness to this very fine, old piece from the upper oxidized zone. 5.4 x 5.0 x 4.1 cm
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![Cuprite, Copper from Chino Mine (Santa Rita Pit; Santa Rita Mine), Santa Rita, Santa Rita District, Grant Co., New Mexico, USA [db_pics/mdpics/MD-61097a.jpg]](db_pics/mdpics/MD-61097a.jpg)
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