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Cuprite from L'Etoile du Congo Mine, Lubumbashi, Katanga Copperbelt, Haut-Katanga Province, Democratic Republic of the Congo

 
Cuprite from L'Etoile du Congo Mine, Lubumbashi, Katanga Copperbelt, Haut-Katanga Province, Democratic Republic of the Congo

Cuprite from L'Etoile du Congo Mine, Lubumbashi, Katanga Copperbelt, Haut-Katanga Province, Democratic Republic of the Congo

Cuprite from L'Etoile du Congo Mine, Lubumbashi, Katanga Copperbelt, Haut-Katanga Province, Democratic Republic of the Congo

DESCRIPTION:No. 78548
Mineral:Cuprite
Locality:L'Etoile du Congo Mine, Lubumbashi, Katanga Copperbelt, Haut-Katanga Province, Democratic Republic of the Congo
Description:Three parallel transparent red cuprite crystals on a plate of cuprite. The cuprite crystals exhibit octahedral faces with thin dodecahedral edge faces. Microscopic colorless quartz crystals are visible intersecting one edge of the largest cuprite crystal
Overall Size:13x13x7 mm
Crystals:micro to 9 mm
Archived: For reference only

 

 

 

 

 

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