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Cuprite On Copper

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Cuprite On Copper

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Description
Locality: 
Kambove, Haut-Katanga, DR Congo
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
4.5 × 3.1 × 2 cm
Description

Aesthetic specimen featuring elongated twinned crystals of native copper on a matrix of pink cobaltoan-rich calcite, spotted by lustrous red crystals of cuprite.

This candy specimen was found by Rene Virlet, a Belgian colonist in Congo who travel back definitively to Belgium in 1968.

Ex. René Virlet specimen.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Cuprite

Formula: 
Cu2O
Strunz: 
4.AA.10
Crystal System: 
Isometric
Hardness: 
3.5 - 4.0

Copper

Formula: 
Cu
Strunz: 
1.AA.05
Crystal System: 
Isometric
Hardness: 
2.5 - 3.0

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