Cuprite on Calcite - Mashamba West Mine, Congo (Zaire), Democratic Republic of the - 3.9 × 2.7 × 2.5 cm

Mineral: Cuprite on Calcite
Locality: Mashamba West Mine, Kolwezi District, Lualaba, Katanga Copper Crescent, Katanga (Shaba), Democratic Republic of the Congo (Zaire)
Dimensions: 3.9 × 2.7 × 2.5 cm

Description: Very sharp and isolated Cuprite crystals, one of them clearly dominant, very aerial, with the forms of the octahedron, the rhombododecahedron and the cube. Translucent, very lustrous and with a very deep red color. On matrix, with small rhombohedral Calcite crystals.