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Cuprite - Classic locale and form
Cuprite - Classic locale and form Cuprite - Classic locale and form Cuprite - Classic locale and form
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Cuprite - Classic locale and form (Ref: 20.1-876)

Chessy Copper Mines, Chessy-les Mines, Villefranche-sur-Saône, Rhône, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France
13mm x 11mm x 10mm
minID: F17-C9G
A perfect thumbnail crystal that is complete all around and has textbook perfect hoppered faces. The Cuprite is coated with Malachite as is typical from Chessy. This locality is famous, it is one of the oldest and most classic of European mineral localities. This example is unusually perfect, undamaged with no contacts or missing parts. This was in the collection of Terry Szenics who is well known for excellent taste in minerals, especially copper species.
From: Well-Arranged Molecules
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$508 *
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$102 *
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$102 *
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Malachite after Cuprite on Azurite
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$500
50mm x 33mm x 28mm
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Azurite with Malachite after Cuprite
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$200
30mm x 25mm x 25mm
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$260
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$250
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$400
32mm x 20mm x 20mm
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Cuprite with Copper
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$400
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Rouaite with Cuprite
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$400
80mm x 40mm x 20mm
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Cuprite + Azurite. 1767.0 ct.
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$220 *
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Malachite over Cuprite
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$350
21mm x 20mm x 18mm
From: Marin Minerals
* price is an approximate conversion and may not be accurate.

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