Cuprite

TSNB986
Specimen
Exhibit 1. Cuprite; 22 mm.
Exhibit 1. Cuprite; 22 mm.
Image Credit: Sharon Cisneros

Specimen Title

Cuprite

Principal Mineral

Cuprite

Size

Thumbnail; 22mm

Location in the Mine

Undetermined

Collection

Cisneros, S. & E.

Entry Number

Specimen; TSNB986

Description

A plate of lustrous cuprite crystals (to 6 mm), predominantly of cubo-octahedral habit, loosely intergrown and on a shard of indeterminate matrix material.

The specimen is in the collection of Sharon and Eugene Cisneros.