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CUPRITE - CUP4746

CUPRITE
$90.00 Weight: 312 g


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Specifications

Rubtsovskoe Mine; Rudnyi Altai, Altaiskii Krai, Western Siberian Region, Russia
37mm x 28mm x 25mm
Cluster of dark red to black metallic cuprite octahedral crystals, measuring up to 7 mm across. Some edge chipping and broken crystals, but still excellent for the species. A great article about the mineralogy of this deposit was published in the Mineralogical Record, Volume 45, Number 4 (July – August, 2014), pages 403 – 435.