This matrixy-looking cuprite specimen is topped by an aesthetic, pristine, equant, lustrous octahedron of cuprite. The luster is metallic with a distinct red highlight in strong lighting. The large crystal measures 2.5 cm on a side and is underlain by smaller cuprite crystals that are also free of damage, making for the "matrixy look" of the piece as they provide a pedestal to the big crystal. An excellent minature of sparkling aesthetics, this is complete all around! As a bonus, it has small flecks of microcrystallized native silver, a highly unusual association for cuprite and something rather novel to this mine. This would be, in the context of the finds here of which we know much more this year than when they started trickling out in late 2008, a superior miniature.