Native Elements
Cuprite with Native Copper
$1,500.00 €1,239 £1,100.00 approx. This specimen is priced in US dollars, all other prices are approximate.
ID:
CC21087
This fine small cabinet specimen of Cuprite and Native Copper crystals is from the world-famous Wheal Gorland in the parish of Gwennap, which became part of the St. Day United Mines set. The village of St. Day is about 3 km east of Redruth in Cornwall, England. Hundreds of 1 to 2 mm octahedral Cuprite crystals cover a massive Cuprite and milky Quartz veinstone within which is a 7 long by 2 cm wide band of crystallised Native Copper. The Native Copper has a copper-tinted milk chocolate patina, and the Cuprite crystals appear dark maroon, tending to black. However, in strong light the Cuprite is seen to be translucent claret-red with occasional flashes of brilliant blood-red appearing. This is a beautiful specimen and so characteristic of the Cuprite and Native Copper found in Wheal Gorland’s rich oxidised zone. From the Dr Josef Clemente Collection of southern Germany.