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Polycrystalline surface of crystals with the dominant octahedron, but also with the faces of the dodecahedron and the cube. The crystals are translucent, very bright with a vivid red color and are on matrix. Of the best quality for that mine.
Milpillas Mine, Cuitaca, Municipio Santa Cruz, Sonora Mexico (2012-2013)
Specimen size: 6.4 × 3.7 × 2.3 cm = 2.52” × 1.46” × 0.91”

TZ7AH5: Cuprite

Two Cuprite crystals, one of them clearly dominant, with the main forms of the cube and octahedron beveled by the dodecahedron. The crystals, translucent, have vivid reflections of intense red shades.
We’ll send the sample in its original Perkin’s box from the R.J. Noble collection, also containing the collection label.
Red Dome Mine, Chillagoe, Chillagoe-Herberton District, Tablelands Region, Queensland Australia
Specimen size: 2.5 × 2 × 1.7 cm = 0.98” × 0.79” × 0.67”

Main crystal size: 2.5 × 1.7 cm = 0.98” × 0.67”

TK46AD2: Cuprite

A novelty at Tucson 2016. Very isolated Cuprite crystals, one of them clearly dominant and larger than usual on Milpillas samples. The crystals, translucent and with an intense red color, are formed by the dominant octahedron with cube and dodecahedron faces and they are on a rocky matrix with massive Cuprite.
Milpillas Mine, Cuitaca, Municipio Santa Cruz, Sonora Mexico (06/2015)
Specimen size: 8.6 × 7 × 4.7 cm = 3.39” × 2.76” × 1.85”

TH56AD2: Cuprite

A novelty at Tucson 2016. Polycrystalline aggregate that forms a “paved” like surface of Cuprite crystals formed by the dominant octahedron with small cube faces. They have very well defined faces and edges. The crystals, on a rocky matrix with massive Cuprite, are translucent, and have a very deep red color that is partially masked by their extraordinary luster.
Milpillas Mine, Cuitaca, Municipio Santa Cruz, Sonora Mexico (08-09/2015)
Specimen size: 9.6 × 5.4 × 4.7 cm = 3.78” × 2.13” × 1.85”

Main crystal size: 0.7 × 0.7 cm = 0.28” × 0.28”

TD66AH5: Cuprite

Polycrystalline surface of crystals with the dominant octahedron, but also with the faces of the dodecahedron and the cube. The crystals are translucent, very bright with a vivid red color and are on matrix. Of the best quality for that mine.
Milpillas Mine, Cuitaca, Municipio Santa Cruz, Sonora Mexico (2012-2013)
Specimen size: 7.1 × 6.2 × 2.8 cm = 2.80” × 2.44” × 1.10”

RD96V0: Cuprite

Arborescent growths of copper covered by cubic crystals of Cuprite, translucent, bright and vivid red in color. Of excellent quality for the locality, a great North American classic.
Ray Mines, Scott Mountain area, Mineral Creek District, Dripping Spring Mountains, Pinal County, Arizona USA (±1964)
Specimen size: 9.3 × 6 × 1.5 cm = 3.66” × 2.36” × 0.59”

Main crystal size: 0.2 × 0.2 cm = 0.08” × 0.08”

TX66N0: Cuprite

A novelty for Tucson 2009. Group of crystals with extraordinary luster and reddish reflections. On crystals predominate, very sharp, the forms of the octahedron and the dodecahedron. The sample is from a recent find (July and Augost of 2008) on a Russian locality practically unknown until now.
Poteryaevskoe Mine, block 2-1, ↓100 m., Rubtsovsky District, Altai Krai Russia (06-08/2008)
Specimen size: 1.5 × 1.4 × 1.3 cm = 0.59” × 0.55” × 0.51”

TZ99N0: Cuprite

A novelty for Tucson 2009. Group of octahedral crystals with slight curvatures of faces and edges. They have excellent luster, with reddish reflections especially vivid under a strong light. The sample is from a recent find (July and August of 2008) at a Russian locality practically unknown until now.
Poteryaevskoe Mine, block 2-1, ↓100 m., Rubtsovsky District, Altai Krai Russia (06-08/2008)
Specimen size: 3.3 × 3.2 × 2.5 cm = 1.30” × 1.26” × 0.98”

Main crystal size: 2.2 × 1.6 cm = 0.87” × 0.63”

TQ64N0: Cuprite

A novelty for Tucson 2009. An excellent group both for its size and for the crystal size. The crystals are octahedrons with slight curvatures of faces and edges. They have very good luster and reddish reflections especially vivid under a strong light. The sample is from a recent find (July and August of 2008) at a Russian locality practically unknown until now.
This specimen was photographed for the ‘what’s new at Tucson 2009’ section of the magazine ‘Mineralien Welt’ and appears on page 7 of number 3/2009
Poteryaevskoe Mine, block 2-1, ↓100 m., Rubtsovsky District, Altai Krai Russia (06-08/2008)
Specimen size: 5.8 × 4.2 × 4.6 cm = 2.28” × 1.65” × 1.81”

M57AI7: Cuprite

Cuprite can be considered as a very rare species at Touissit. On the sample it is in small, very bright and reddish crystals on matrix.
Touissit, Touissit District, Jerada Province, Oriental Region Morocco (1997)
Specimen size: 7.5 × 7 × 4.3 cm = 2.95” × 2.76” × 1.69”

RE96H0: Cuprite

A group of very bright crystals formed by the faces of the cube and the octahedron. On the bottom of the sample there is some coverage of a green mineral, perhaps Bayldonite.
Tsumeb Mine, Tsumeb, Otjikoto Region Namibia
Specimen size: 3.1 × 2.2 × 0.9 cm = 1.22” × 0.87” × 0.35”

RX47H7: Cuprite

Crystal group of very splendent luster, formed by the dominant octahedron. Because it was found long ago and still possesses its original luster, we think it can be maintained indefinitely if the sample is protected from sun light.
Tsumeb Mine, Tsumeb, Otjikoto Region Namibia (±1969)
Specimen size: 2.4 × 2.4 × 1.8 cm = 0.94” × 0.94” × 0.71”

Main crystal size: 0.9 × 0.7 cm = 0.35” × 0.28”

RV36F8: Cuprite

A miniature classic from the Wheal Phoenix Mine. The crystals are brilliant, have good color, and have perfect growth of the octahedral form, and also the cubic form in some cases. The handwritten label has ‘Russell’ written on it, so it must have come from Sir Arthur Russell, who Folch knew.
Wheal Phoenix, Phoenix United Mine, Minions, Linkinhorne, Liskeard District, Cornwall England / United Kingdom (±1948)
Specimen size: 3.8 × 1.9 × 1.9 cm = 1.50” × 0.75” × 0.75”

RT86M9: Cuprite

A classic from a really, really, classic locality. It is a group on matrix of cubic crystals that, despite the years, have retained good luster and color.
The sample was initially in the Sir Arthur Russell collection, whose label we will deliver to the buyer.
Wheal Phoenix, Phoenix United Mine, Minions, Linkinhorne, Liskeard District, Cornwall England / United Kingdom
Specimen size: 3.1 × 2 × 1.6 cm = 1.22” × 0.79” × 0.63”

RD47R6: Cuprite (Chalcotrichite) with Copper

Coatings of feltlike crystals of Chalcotrichite, with very intense luster and red color, on a dendritic growth of flattened crystals of native Copper on matrix. An U.S. classic that Folch acquired in 1971 from the well known Swiss dealers Siber + Siber.
Ray Mines, Scott Mountain area, Mineral Creek District, Dripping Spring Mountains, Pinal County, Arizona USA (±1971)
Specimen size: 10.6 × 8 × 4.1 cm = 4.17” × 3.15” × 1.61”

RH47K8: Cuprite (Chalcotrichite) with Copper

Small but numerous groups of fibrous Cuprite crystals (Chalcotrichite), very bright and vivid red in color, on laminar growths of native Copper on matrix. The locality, a classic for Chalcotrichite (and for native Copper), makes this specimen even more interesting.
Ray Mines, Scott Mountain area, Mineral Creek District, Dripping Spring Mountains, Pinal County, Arizona USA (±1971)
Specimen size: 12.2 × 7.4 × 4 cm = 4.80” × 2.91” × 1.57”

CRB46AP7: Cuprite (variety chalcotrichite)

Felted aggregates of fine acicular Cuprite crystals (variety chalcotrichite), with very bright luster and an intense, lively red color, on a limonite matrix. The specimen, from a very classic locality for the species (and variety), comes from the Carles Curto collection’s duplicates (number 1982.32) Iconic mine of the Bisbee mining district, one of the great classics of the southwestern United States. Copper Queen Mine is part of an extensive copper-bearing system related to Laramide intrusive bodies, with skarn development and hydrothermal mineralization of medium to high temperature. Strong supergene oxidation of the upper levels produced an exceptional suite of secondary copper minerals.
Copper Queen Mine, Queen Hill, Bisbee, Warren District, Mule Mountains, Cochise County, Arizona USA
Specimen size: 3.9 × 3.1 × 2.2 cm = 1.54” × 1.22” × 0.87”

RC6K4: Cuprite (variety chalcotrichite) with Copper

Fibrous aggregates of excellent luster and very intense red color on laminar growths of native Copper on matrix.
Ajo, Little Ajo Mountains, Ajo District, Pima County, Arizona USA (±1973)
Specimen size: 7.7 × 6 × 5 cm = 3.03” × 2.36” × 1.97”

RH6V0: Cuprite (variety chalcotrichite) with Copper

Arborescent growths of crystals of native Copper on matrix, with mossy aggregates of very thin fibrous crystals of Cuprite (variety chalcotrichite), very bright and with deep red color.
We’ll send the Minerals Unlimited label to the buyer of the specimen.
Ray Mines, Scott Mountain area, Mineral Creek District, Dripping Spring Mountains, Pinal County, Arizona USA (±1963)
Specimen size: 6.8 × 5.5 × 2 cm = 2.68” × 2.17” × 0.79”

MD66AM6: Cuprite and Copper after Cuprite

Very sharp octahedral Cuprite crystals, translucent, with good luster and a deep red color, with some of the crystals totally or partially covered by small crystallizations of Copper. We will send the buyer the specimen in its original perky box from the Robert J. Noble collection, which also contains the label.
Rubtsovskoe Mine, Rubtsovsky District, Altai Krai Russia
Specimen size: 3.3 × 1.8 × 1.8 cm = 1.30” × 0.71” × 0.71”

Main crystal size: 0.8 × 0.7 cm = 0.31” × 0.28”

TBM27AO7: Cuprite on Calcite

Very sharp and isolated Cuprite crystals, one of them clearly dominant, very aerial, with the forms of the octahedron, the rhombododecahedron and the cube. Translucent, very lustrous and with a very deep red color. On matrix, with small rhombohedral Calcite crystals.
Mashamba West Mine, Kolwezi District, Lualaba, Katanga Copper Crescent, Katanga (Shaba) Democratic Republic of the Congo (Zaire)
Specimen size: 3.9 × 2.7 × 2.5 cm = 1.54” × 1.06” × 0.98”

MRB26AO0: Cuprite on Copper

Very sharp octahedral Cuprite crystals, translucent, lustrous, with a very vivid red color, implanted on a dendritic growth of Copper crystals. Altogether a very esthetic specimen.
Fengjiashan Mine, Edong, Daye, Huangshi Prefecture, Hubei Province China (2021)
Specimen size: 9.8 × 7 × 4.6 cm = 3.86” × 2.76” × 1.81”

Main crystal size: 0.4 × 0.2 cm = 0.16” × 0.08”

SM230NC: Cuprite on Copper

Very aerial dendritic growth of Copper with small octahedral crystals of Cuprite, red and lustrous. An English classic.
Geevor Mine, Pendeen, Saint Just District, Cornwall England / United Kingdom
Specimen size: 13.4 × 6 × 2 cm cm = 5.28” × 2.36” × 0.79”

EGL54AO9: Cuprite on Malachite and Chrysocolla

Obtained at Ste. Marie 2022 Group of very sharp Cuprite crystals, one of them clearly dominant, with crystal forms of the octahedron and, to a lesser extent, of the cube. With finely polycrystalline striations, translucent, with an intense red color by transmitted light, on matrix partially covered by Chrysocolla, which in turn is covered by Malachite microcrystals.
Mashamba West Mine, Kolwezi District, Lualaba, Katanga Copper Crescent, Katanga (Shaba) Democratic Republic of the Congo (Zaire)
Specimen size: 9 × 6.9 × 5.7 cm = 3.54” × 2.72” × 2.24”

Main crystal size: 1.4 × 1.2 cm = 0.55” × 0.47”

MB67AF2: Cuprite with Calcite

Very sharp octahedral Cuprite crystals. They are very bright, and have a very intense and deep red color visible under an intense light. The Cuprite esthetically contrasts with the white Calcite coating the vug on a rocky matrix.
Mashamba West Mine, Kolwezi District, Lualaba, Katanga Copper Crescent, Katanga (Shaba) Democratic Republic of the Congo (Zaire)
Specimen size: 6.5 × 5 × 4.4 cm = 2.56” × 1.97” × 1.73”

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