Description: Cuprite on Copper
Chino Mine
Santa Rita District
Santa Rita
Grant County, New Mexico
United States of America
9.0 x 7.5 x 3.5 cm overall
Nicely crystallized native Copper crystals to 1 cm, some spinel twins, are almost entirely covered with red Cuprite as microcrystalline crusts and cubic crystals to nearly 2 mm in size.
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