Image Credit: Malcolm Southwood
Specimen Title
Cuprite (w. malachite)
Associated Minerals
malachite
Principal Mineral
Precursor Mineral (Uncertain)
Size
Miniature; 34mm
Location in the Mine
Undetermined
Provenance
Latz, C.V.
Collection
Geoscience Australia; R28058
Entry Number
Specimen; TSNB887
Description
An aggregate of loosely intergrown cuprite crystals (to 3 mm), predominantly dodecahedral in habit and peppered to varying degrees with sub-mm spherules of malachite. The habit of the aggregate suggests that it may be pseudomorphous after native copper (?).
The specimen was formerly in the collection of Clement Victor Latz, which was donated to the Australian Bureau of Mineral Resources (now Geoscience Australia) in 1976. There is no record of earlier provenance or of location in the mine.
