Delafossite

  
Jet black micro crystals to 2 mm throughout matrix associated with excellent cuprite.
  
Black matrix with 1-2 mm crystals associated with excellent cuprite crystals
  
Black botryoidal crusts and spherulitic "fuzzy" tufts with superb, dark red cubic and modified cubic crystals of cuprite to 0.75 mm.
Origin: Campbell shaft, Bisbee, Cochise Co., Arizona, United States
Sample size: 5 x 6 x 2 cm (top), 4 x 3 x 1.5 cm (2nd row), 8 x 4 x 2 cm (bottom)
 

Photo courtesy of: 

Tom Loomis

Dakota Matrix Minerals

 

Origin: Clara Mine, Rankach valley, Oberwolfach, Wolfach, Black Forest, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
Picture size: 5 mm
Owner: Thomas Witzke
 

Photo courtesy of: 

Thomas Witzke

Institut für Mineralogie und Lagerstättenlehre
Aachen, Germany

 

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