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MD-200680
Cuprite, Copper
Poldory Mine, United Mines (Gwennap United Mines), Clifford Amalgamated Mines, Gwennap area, Camborne - Redruth - St Day District, Cornwall, England, UK
Small Cabinet, 5.5 x 4.7 x 3.2 cm
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A classic, old-time combination specimen of lustrous, wine-red cuprite microcrystals richly covering a solid box-work matrix of elongated, spinel-twinned copper crystals to massive copper from the historic Gwennap-St. Day area of Cornwall. Both species are rare from this locale. Ex. Durkos Collection.