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Great group of octahedral crystals of Cuprite, very bright and with slightly curved faces and edges. They are on matrix and the crystals on the back are partially coated by native Silver.
Poteryaevskoe Mine, block 2-1, ↓100 m., Rubtsovsky District, Altai Krai Russia (20-25/11/2010)
Specimen size: 6.5 × 7.7 × 4.2 cm = 2.56” × 3.03” × 1.65”

MN69R8: Cuprite with Silver

Group of very well defined octahedral crystals of Cuprite with slightly curved faces and edges and very rare spongy growths of Silver in the interstices between crystals.
Poteryaevskoe Mine, Rubtsovsky District, Altai Krai Russia (22/06/2010)
Specimen size: 3.5 × 3.2 × 3 cm = 1.38” × 1.26” × 1.18”

Main crystal size: 1.6 × 1.3 cm = 0.63” × 0.51”

RQ66K9: Cuprite with Wulfenite

Group of cubic Cuprite crystals with slight curves. On the Cuprite crystals one can find laminar Wulfenite crystals, which is very uncommon.
Tsumeb Mine, Tsumeb, Otjikoto Region Namibia (1973)
Specimen size: 7.0 × 5.8 × 4.8 cm = 2.76” × 2.28” × 1.89”

RM12AE6: Cuprite with Wulfenite and Dolomite

Aggregates of cubo-octahedral Cuprite crystals on a matrix of massive Cuprite with yellowish-brown laminar Wulfenite crystals and small coatings of white Dolomite crystals.
The sample is from the Joaquín Folch duplicates collection, whose label we’ll send to the buyer.
Tsumeb Mine, Tsumeb, Otjikoto Region Namibia
Specimen size: 8.3 × 5.5 × 6.4 cm = 3.27” × 2.17” × 2.52”

Main crystal size: 0.4 × 0.3 cm = 0.16” × 0.12”

9AH16Q6: Cuprite, Calcite

Groups of octahedral crystals with very well defined faces and edges and a deep red color on internal reflection. They are in a cavity, covered by Calcite crystals, that protects them. This opencast mine started its work in 1978.
Mashamba West Mine, Kolwezi District, Lualaba, Katanga Copper Crescent, Katanga (Shaba) Democratic Republic of the Congo (Zaire) (1994)
Specimen size: 8.5 × 7.4 × 5.4 cm = 3.35”

TX96D8: Malachite after Cuprite

From old discoveries comes this Cuprite that has been psuedomorphised by Malachite. The piece is a floater, the crystal is well defined, and it has a form that is different from the typical ones. It also has the virtue of being on matrix, something that is not usual in material from this mine. A special classic specimen.
Onganja (Emke) Mine, Helen Farm 235, Onganja mining area, Seeis, Windhoek District, Khomas Region Namibia
Specimen size: 2.5 × 2.2 × 1.7 cm = 0.98” × 0.87” × 0.67”

EG98AE2: Malachite after Cuprite and Azurite

Malachite pseudomorphous after Cuprite, one clearly dominant, beveled by the faces of the dodecahedron and with spherical Azurite aggregates. It is a nice miniature, an excellent French classic.
Chessy-les-Mines, Les Bois d'Oingt, Villefranche-sur-Saône, Rhône, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes France
Specimen size: 1.8 × 1.3 × 1.6 cm = 0.71” × 0.51” × 0.63”

SV3100EPF: Malachite after Cuprite on Azurite with Baryte

A little eroded by the passage of time, but it is fascinating how the Cuprite pseudomorphed by Malachite has resisted perfectly and stands gracefully on the Azurite. Throughout the piece there are also the characteristic granular barytes, almost always reddish due to the presence of iron oxides. Chessy is the type locality for Azurite.
Chessy-les-Mines, Les Bois d'Oingt, Villefranche-sur-Saône, Rhône, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes France
Specimen size: 3 × 2.3 × 1.8 cm = 1.18” × 0.91” × 0.71”

Main crystal size: 0.5 × 0.5 cm = 0.20” × 0.20”

LK73AL6: Malachite after Cuprite with Azurite

Malachite pseudomorphs after octahedral crystals of Cuprite, very large for the locality, aerial, with deep hopper growths and implanted on an Azurite matrix from the type locality for this species.
A French classic from the Philippe Morelon collection, whose label we will send to the buyer.
Chessy-les-Mines, Les Bois d'Oingt, Villefranche-sur-Saône, Rhône, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes France (1980)
Specimen size: 4.1 × 4.1 × 3.1 cm = 1.61” × 1.61” × 1.22”

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