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Cuprite, Copper

Locality: Rio Tinto mine (Mountain City Copper mine), Mountain City District, Elko Co., Nevada, USA

4.7 x 2.2 x 0.8 cm. A really fine, floater specimen of lustrous, brick-red cuprite coating a very aesthetic, arborescent cluster of spinel-twinned copper crystals from the well-known Rio Tinto Mine of Elk County, Nevada. An excellent, highly crystallized copper from this locale. Ex. Dave Stoudt Collection.

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Photo added: 8th Apr 2009

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