Cuprite on Copper

Rio Tinto Mine, Elko Co., Nevada
Miniature, 5.0 x 1.7 x 1.3 cm
Start Time: 05/10/2010 6:30:00 pm (CDT)
End Time: 05/20/2010 6:30:00 pm (CDT)
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Item Description

A really fine specimen of lustrous, brick-red cuprite coating a very aesthetic, arborescent cluster of spinel-twinned copper crystals perched on matrix from the less well-known Rio Tinto Mine of Elk County, Nevada. An excellent, highly crystallized copper from this locale, with a biomorphic look to it.

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