Cuprite

  
Origin: New Cliff Hill Quarry, Stanton under Bardon, Leicestershire, England, UK
Sample size: prismatic crystals to 1.5 mm (left), 1.5 mm cubic crystal (right)
Owner: Steve Rust
 
Origin: Lodge Park Trial, Tre'r-ddol, Llangynfelyn, Ceredigion (Dyfed; Cardiganshire), Wales, UK
Sample size: 0.4 mm crystal
Owner: Steve Rust
 
Origin: Lletty Evanhen Mine (Vaughan), Bontgoch, Trefeirig, Ceredigion (Dyfed; Cardiganshire), Wales, UK
Sample size: cuprite crystal groups to 0.6 mm, on hemimorphite with langite
Owner: Steve Rust
 
Origin: Frongoch Mine (Bron-y-Goch; Llawynwnwch), Pontrhydygroes, Upper Llanfihangell-y-Creuddyn, Ceredigion (Dyfed; Cardiganshire), Wales, UK
Sample size: cuprite included in 1 mm cerussite crystal.
Owner: Steve Rust
 

Photo courtesy of: 

Steve Rust

 

  
Cuprite on chrysocolla
Origin: Mashamba West Mine, Kolwezi, Katanga, Zaire
Sample size: 16.3 x 4.7 x 3 cm
 
  
  
Chalcotrichite
Origin: 1200 Level, Stope 141, Cole Shaft, Bisbee, Arizona, U.S.A.
Sample size: 5.5 x 4.5 x 2.6 cm
 
  
  
Cuprite on spinel-twinned copper
Origin: Mountain City District, Elko Co., Nevada, U.S.A.
Ex. Marty Lewadny collection
Sample size: 5.0 x 2.2 x 1.7 cm
 

Photo courtesy of: 

Rob Lavinsky

The Arkenstone

 

Back to page 1     Page 2     Page 3     Page 4     Page 5     Page 6     Page 7     Page 8     Page 9     Page 10     Page 11     Page 12     Page 13

Page 14     Page 16     Page 17     Page 18     Page 19     Page 20     Page 21     Page 22     Page 23     Page 24     Page 25     Page 26

Page 27     Page 28     Page 29     Page 30     Page 31     Page 32     Page 33     Page 34     Page 35     Page 36     Page 37     Page 38

Page 39     Page 40     Page 41     Page 42     Page 43     Page 44     Page 45     Page 46

Back to Alphabetical list Physical, chemical and crystallographic description Optical properties/Thin sections SEM images TEM images vibrational spectra description IR spectra Raman spectra N-IR spectra F-IR spectra IES spectra