Cuprite - classic Cornish, well-crystallized
Wheal Gorland, St Day, United Mines, Gwennap. Camborne, Redruth-St. Day
Cornwall, England
5.7 x 4.4 x 4.1 CM (cabinet)
price: $770
A solid, rich mass of octahedral crystals, essentially all Cuprite, in an esthetic cluster. Ex British Museum (no old label was retained but the piece has been published) this is certainly a very old specimen. This was one of the most famous classic specimen localities in all of Cornwall, with the primary mining finished in 1851. Some later mining did occur but the produced little. There are hundreds of small Cuprite crystals on this piece, dark red in color and with a good sparkling luster. Larger crystals from here exist but in our experience they are a more dull dark brown red. A choice old English Copper, far better than typical from this famed mine.
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Cuprite - classic Cornish, well-crystallized
Wheal Gorland, St Day, United Mines, Gwennap. Camborne, Redruth-St. Day
Cornwall, England
5.7 x 4.4 x 4.1 CM (cabinet)
price: $770
A solid, rich mass of octahedral crystals, essentially all Cuprite, in an esthetic cluster. Ex British Museum (no old label was retained but the piece has been published) this is certainly a very old specimen. This was one of the most famous classic specimen localities in all of Cornwall, with the primary mining finished in 1851. Some later mining did occur but the produced little. There are hundreds of small Cuprite crystals on this piece, dark red in color and with a good sparkling luster. Larger crystals from here exist but in our experience they are a more dull dark brown red. A choice old English Copper, far better than typical from this famed mine.
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