Cuprite

Origin: Wheal Gorland, Gwennap, Cornwall, England
Owner: Lou Perloff
Microscopic image
 
Origin: Spring Creek mine, Wilmington, South Australia, Australia
Owner: Lou Perloff
Microscopic image
 
Origin: Ray mine, Ray, Pinal Co., Arizona, U.S.A.
Owner: Lou Perloff
Microscopic image
 
  
 
Origin: Bisbee, Cochise Co., Arizona, U.S.A.
Owner: Lou Perloff
Microscopic image

Photo courtesy of: 

Lou Perloff

Photo-Atlas of Minerals

 

Variety chalcotrichite
Origin: Bisbee, Cochise County, Arizona, U.S.A.
Sample size: 2.5 x 2.5 x 2 cm
 
  
Origin: 41 Level, Tsumeb, Namibia
Sample size: 3 x 2.5 x 2 cm
 

Photo courtesy of: 

Rob Lavinsky

The Arkenstone

 

  
Cuprite, zincian dolomite, and conichalcite
Origin: Tsumeb Mine, Tsumeb, Otjikoto Province, Namibia
Sample size: 5 x 4 x 3 cm
 
  
Modified cubic, deep red crystals to 1 mm
Origin: Manto Cuba mine, Inca de Oro, Chile
Sample size: 4 x 3 x 2.5 cm
 
  
Dendritic copper crystals to 2 mm with deep red well formed cuprite crystals.
Origin: Mina Mantos de Cuba, Inca de Oro, Copiapo, Atacama, Chile
Sample size: 7 x 5 x 5 cm
 
  
Unusual "balls", perhaps limonitic replacements of something which are totally covered by micro crystals of cuprite to less than 0.2 mm.
  
Deep red micro crystals of cuprite to about 0.7 5 mm as singles across matrix and on limonitic balls. No reasonable explanation of what these balls are!
Origin: Ray mine, Pinal Co., Arizona, United States
Sample size: 6 x 4.5 x 4 cm (top), 7.5 x 5 x 4 cm (bottom)
 
Chalcotrichite on copper
Origin: Santa Rita, Grant Co., New Mexico, United States
Ex. Eaton collection
Sample size: 20 x 12 x 3 cm
 
  
Origin: Morenci, Greenlee Co., Utah, United States
Ex. DeVito collection
Sample size: 3 x 2 x 2 cm
 

Photo courtesy of: 

Tom Loomis

Dakota Matrix Minerals

 

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