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Dendritic Copper crystals that are very elongated and bright with well-defined faces and edges with very visible spinel law twinning. They are partially coated by reddish Cuprite.
The sample is with an old Copper City Rock Shop label that we’ll send to the buyer.
Ray Mines, Scott Mountain area, Mineral Creek District, Dripping Spring Mountains, Pinal County, Arizona USA
Specimen size: 9 × 5.2 × 4.3 cm = 3.5” × 2.0” × 1.7”
Price: Euro:840 / US$970 / Yen:105730 / AUD$1290

EM96AA5: Copper with Cuprite

Very aerial dendritic growth of elongated and flattened Copper crystals showing very well defined Spinel-law twins and partially coated by cubo-octahedral Cuprite crystals. An excellent American classic.
Ray Mines, Scott Mountain area, Mineral Creek District, Dripping Spring Mountains, Pinal County, Arizona USA
Specimen size: 3.8 × 3.1 × 0.8 cm = 1.5” × 1.2” × 0.3”

Main crystal size: 1.4 × 0.3 cm = 0.6” × 0.1”
Price: Euro:190 / US$219 / Yen:23910 / AUD$290

TJ87AF6: Copper with Cuprite, Calcite and Malachite

Arborescent growth of native Copper crystals on matrix, with small octahedral Cuprite crystals which are very bright and intensely red. The Copper has coatings of Calcite and Malachite.
The sample is from the Vallecillo collection, Madrid.
Tsumeb Mine, Tsumeb, Otjikoto Region Namibia
Specimen size: 9.5 × 6.3 × 3.8 cm = 3.7” × 2.5” × 1.5”
Price: Euro:250 / US$288 / Yen:31470 / AUD$380

MG64AG3: Corkite on Plumbogummite

Coatings of very well defined micro-crystals of Corkite, a rare lead and iron sulfate-phosphate. They have an olive-green color, are very bright and are implanted on a clearer grayish-green Plumbogummite and on a limonite matrix.
The specimen has been reviewed, photographed and published as a new discovery in the magazine ‘Mineral Up’ on page 64 in number 2017/2
Serra da Mina Mine, Cercal, Santiago do Cacém, Setúbal District Portugal (2016-2017)
Specimen size: 6.1 × 5.4 × 4.6 cm = 2.4” × 2.1” × 1.8”

Main crystal size: 0.1 × 0.1 cm = 0.0” × 0.0”
Price: Euro:115 / US$132 / Yen:14470 / AUD$170

MP51AF0: Creedite

Acute Creedite crystals with very well defined faces and edges. They are transparent, very bright, with an intense and uniform violet color and, in some areas on the sample there are reddish Hematite inclusions. The sample is from the famous cavity opened at Santa Eulalia in 1984 that provided the best Creedite samples at the locality.
Santa Eulalia District, Municipio Aquiles Serdán, Chihuahua Mexico (1984)
Specimen size: 6.3 × 4.5 × 4.3 cm = 2.5” × 1.8” × 1.7”
Price: Euro:580 / US$670 / Yen:73010 / AUD$890

TB56W7: Crocoite

Very well defined crystals, some of them doubly terminated, with very acute terminations and more isolated than usual. They have excellent luster and color and are on matrix. The locality, a classic for the species, has produced few samples of this quality.
Callenberg North open cut (No. 1), Callenberg, Zwickau, Saxony/Sachsen Germany (1977)
Specimen size: 6.3 × 6.2 × 3.4 cm = 2.5” × 2.4” × 1.3”

Main crystal size: 0.7 × 0.3 cm = 0.3” × 0.1”
Price: Euro:150 / US$173 / Yen:18880 / AUD$230

EA11Y6: Cuprian Adamite

A novelty for 2013. Globular aggregates of micro-crystals with very intense green color, somewhat clearer in some areas, with very good luster and on a limonite matrix. The quality is excellent for the locality
Hilarion Mine, Hilarion area, Kamariza Mines, Agios Konstantinos, Lavrion Mining District, Attikí (Attica) Prefecture Greece (05/2013)
Specimen size: 5.1 × 4.5 × 3.8 cm = 2.0” × 1.8” × 1.5”
Price: Euro:60 / US$69 / Yen:7550 / AUD$90

EB14Y6: Cuprian Adamite

A novelty for 2013. Globular aggregates of micro-crystals with very intense and uniform green color, with very good luster and on limonite matrix. The quality is excellent for the locality.
Hilarion Mine, Hilarion area, Kamariza Mines, Agios Konstantinos, Lavrion Mining District, Attikí (Attica) Prefecture Greece (05/2013)
Specimen size: 6.7 × 5.8 × 4.3 cm = 2.6” × 2.3” × 1.7”
Price: Euro:90 / US$104 / Yen:11320 / AUD$130

MC11X8: Cuprian Adamite with Smithsonite

Spheroidal growths of cuprian Adamite in micro-crystals whose color is between green and bluish green. They are on limonite matrix, with white botryoidal Smithsonite. It is a rarity at the small Serpieri mine at Lavrion, not well known for collectible samples.
Serpieri Mine, Kamariza Mines, Lavrion Mining District, Attikí (Attica) Prefecture Greece (01/2013)
Specimen size: 3.5 × 3.4 × 1.6 cm = 1.4” × 1.3” × 0.6”
Price: Euro:70 / US$80 / Yen:8810 / AUD$100

TR96AD6: Cuprite

A novelty at Tucson 2016. Polycrystalline aggregate of Cuprite crystals showing the dominant octahedron beveled by the dodecahedron, with 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 (12/2015-01/2016)
Specimen size: 2.1 × 1 × 1.1 cm = 0.8” × 0.4” × 0.4”

Main crystal size: 1 × 0.7 cm = 0.4” × 0.3”
Price: Euro:160 / US$184 / Yen:20140 / AUD$240

TA49AH5: 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: 3.3 × 3.1 × 2.6 cm = 1.3” × 1.2” × 1.0”
Price: Euro:440 / US$508 / Yen:55380 / AUD$670

TR99AC9: Cuprite

A novelty at Tucson 2016. Very bright and sharp Cuprite crystals from recent finds at the Milpillas mine.
Milpillas Mine, Cuitaca, Municipio Santa Cruz, Sonora Mexico (12/2015-01/2016)
Specimen size: 5.6 × 5 × 2.5 cm = 2.2” × 2.0” × 1.0”

Main crystal size: 0.9 × 0.6 cm = 0.4” × 0.2”
Price: Euro:480 / US$554 / Yen:60420 / AUD$730

TA30AG1: Cuprite

Milpillas is in recent times a kind of lighthouse for the fans of minerals from all over the world. Within the extensive catalog of spectacular minerals their Cuprites are not the most recognized, but their quality is very high.
Milpillas Mine, Cuitaca, Municipio Santa Cruz, Sonora Mexico (2015)
Specimen size: 8.7 × 8 × 4.8 cm = 3.4” × 3.1” × 1.9”
Price: Euro:490 / US$566 / Yen:61680 / AUD$750

TF99AH6: Cuprite

Druse of very sharp cubo-octahedral crystals that are bright, have very intense reddish reflections and are partially coated by small Cerussite crystals.
The sample is from the Chris Amo collection, whose label we’ll send to the buyer.
Tsumeb Mine, Tsumeb, Otjikoto Region Namibia
Specimen size: 5.8 × 5.5 × 2.9 cm = 2.3” × 2.2” × 1.1”

Main crystal size: 0.4 × 0.3 cm = 0.2” × 0.1”
Price: Euro:490 / US$566 / Yen:61680 / AUD$752

TK70AE9: Cuprite

Cuprite crystals formed by a dominant cube and octahedron, and beveled by the dodecahedron with some hoppered faces and, in general, with very well defined faces and edges. The crystals, on a rocky matrix, 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 (2015)
Specimen size: 5 × 3.4 × 1.7 cm = 2.0” × 1.3” × 0.7”
Price: Euro:560 / US$647 / Yen:70490 / AUD$860

TC16AH5: 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: 6.4 × 3.7 × 2.3 cm = 2.5” × 1.5” × 0.9”

Main crystal size: 1 × 0.7 cm = 0.4” × 0.3”
Price: Euro:1000 / US$1155 / Yen:125880 / AUD$1530

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 = 1.0” × 0.8” × 0.7”
Price: Euro:1100 / US$1271 / Yen:138460 / AUD$1690

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 = 2.8” × 2.4” × 1.1”

Main crystal size: 2.4 × 1.2 cm = 0.9” × 0.5”
Price: Euro:1550 / US$1791 / Yen:195110 / AUD$2380

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., Rubtsovskoe, Rudnyi Altai, Altaiskii Kray, Western-Siberian Region Russia (06-08/2008)
Specimen size: 3.3 × 3.2 × 2.5 cm = 1.3” × 1.3” × 1.0”
Price: Euro:490 / US$566 / Yen:61680 / AUD$750

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, Katanga Copper Crescent, Katanga (Shaba) Congo DR (Zaire)
Specimen size: 6.5 × 5 × 4.4 cm = 2.6” × 2.0” × 1.7”

Main crystal size: 0.7 × 0.6 cm = 0.3” × 0.2”
Price: Euro:230 / US$265 / Yen:28950 / AUD$350

AH16Q6: Cuprite with 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 that protects them.
Mashamba West Mine, Kolwezi District, Katanga Copper Crescent, Katanga (Shaba) Congo DR (Zaire) (1994)
Specimen size: 8.5 × 7.4 × 5.4 cm = 3.3” × 2.9” × 2.1”
Price: Euro:110 / US$127 / Yen:13840 / AUD$160

EB56Y6: Cuprite with Calcite and Chrysocolla

Group, of very sharp octahedral Cuprite crystals that are extraordinarily bright and have a deep red color. On matrix with Calcite and Chrysocolla.
Mashamba West Mine, Kolwezi District, Katanga Copper Crescent, Katanga (Shaba) Congo DR (Zaire)
Specimen size: 3.2 × 2.2 × 2.4 cm = 1.3” × 0.9” × 0.9”

Main crystal size: 0.7 × 0.7 cm = 0.3” × 0.3”
Price: Euro:140 / US$161 / Yen:17620 / AUD$210

TQ89W8: Cuprite with Copper after Cuprite

Aggregate of Copper crystals that are pseudomorphs and perimorphs after octahedral crystals of Cuprite, with a second generation of small octahedral crystals of Cuprite with vivid reddish reflections.
Poteryaevskoe Mine, Block 2-1, ↓100 m., Rubtsovskoe, Rudnyi Altai, Altaiskii Kray, Western-Siberian Region Russia (20-25/11/2010)
Specimen size: 4.5 × 4.3 × 2.8 cm = 1.8” × 1.7” × 1.1”
Price: Euro:480 / US$554 / Yen:60420 / AUD$730

TB16AH5: Cuprite with Dickite

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, with white fibrous Dickite aggregates. Of the best quality for that mine.
Milpillas Mine, Cuitaca, Municipio Santa Cruz, Sonora Mexico (2012-2013)
Specimen size: 7 × 4.8 × 1.8 cm = 2.8” × 1.9” × 0.7”

Main crystal size: 0.8 × 0.6 cm = 0.3” × 0.2”
Price: Euro:1200 / US$1386 / Yen:151050 / AUD$1840

TP92AH2: Cuprite with Dolomite (variety cuprian) and Adamite (variety cuprian)

Cubo-octahedral Cuprite crystals that are translucent, very bright, have a very intense and deep red color and are partially coated by aggregates of very well defined cuprian Dolomite crystals and minor cuprian Adamite crystals.
The sample is from the Chris Amo collection (Williamsville, N.Y.), and it previously was in the Willy Israel collection, in Belgium. We’ll send both labels with the sample.
Tsumeb Mine, Tsumeb, Otjikoto Region Namibia
Specimen size: 5.6 × 4 × 3.5 cm = 2.2” × 1.6” × 1.4”
Price: Euro:760 / US$878 / Yen:95660 / AUD$1160

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