Cuprite (old classic) (ex Kay Robertson)

Copper Queen Mine, Bisbee, Warren District, Mule Mountains, Cochise County, Arizona
Thumbnail, 1.7 x 1.1 x 0.7 cm
Start Time: 05/16/2019 6:45:00 pm (CDT)
End Time: 05/23/2019 6:45:00 pm (CDT)
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Item Description

An attractive classic thumbnail from the world famous Copper Queen Mine specimen featuring sharp, well-formed, lustrous, rich blood red colored octahedral crystals of Cuprite measuring up to about 4 mm free of matrix. It's quite a showy specimen and a lovely example of this classic material from one of the most well-known localities in the United States. Ex Kay Robertson Collection (#7278) mounted in a Willard Perkin "Perky Box" display with his label. Kay is a prominent California collector, who specialized in European classics (see the article in the March-April, 2007 Mineralogical Record and the 50+ page article in the German Magazine "Mineralien Welt" November-December 2017).

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