Cuprite
7386 JL1972 Connellite, Cuprite, Great Australia Mine, Cloncurry, Cloncurry Shire, Queensland
An acicular hemisphere of blue connellite needles. Ex Joan Lamond Collection. Acquired by Joan in 1996 from Brian Beyer for $6.00 at the New South Wales Mineralogical Societies Seminar. Width of view 3mm. Stack of 50 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
5155 JL1463 Copper, Cuprite, Spring Creek Mine, Wilmington, District Council of Mount Remarkable, South Australia
A couple of dark cuprite crystals with iridescent dendritic copper. Ex Joan Lamond Collection. Purchased by Joan from Brian Beyer for $1 at the Australasian Mineral Societies Seminar in Melbourne in 1990. Width of view 9mm. Stack of 55 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat BDAU M3010 Likasite, Cuprite, Quartz, Spring Creek Mine, Wilmington, District Council of Mount Remarkable, South Australia
Blue bladed crystals of likasite on cuprite (top left). Ex Bernie Day Collection. Width of view 6mm. Stack of 90 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
ncat JP3742 Willemite, Calcite, Mottramite, Cuprite, Tsumeb Mine, Tsumeb, Oshikoto Region, Namibia
This micro specimen came from the Jo Price Collection. Jo had acquired it from the late Jack Nelson. It is an old specimen simply labelled as mimetite, Tsumeb, SWA. The yellow-zoned “mimetite” crystals look odd and have interesting zoning and appear to be almost aggregates, with lots of crystal faces...
ncat JP2-24-2 A2127 Cuprite, Connellite, Brochantite, Marshite, Smithsonite, Calcite, Block 14 Opencut, Broken Hill, Broken Hill district, Yancowinna Co., New South Wales
An aesthetic and really interesting specimen. Four well-formed cuprite crystals with tiny green brochantite crystals and blue connellite puffballs, sitting on a bed of white smithsonite stained by goethite. Then under longwave UV, you can see a couple of light red fluorescing calcite crystals, and small areas of tiny marshite...
5539 Cuprite, Teutonic Bore Mine, Ten Mile Outcamp, Leonora Shire, Western Australia
Silvery black cuprite crystals with a hint of red. Ex John Lewis Collection. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 40 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
2452 Cuprite, Mt Lyell Mine, Queenstown, Tasmania
Although Mount Lyell is a copper mine, cuprite is not that common. This specimen has black slightly rounded crystals. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 50 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
1665 Cuprite, Broken Hill, New South Wales
Deep red cuprite crystals. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 28 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
2771 OW402 Cuprite, Copper, Pit F0 Supergene Deposit, Boddington Gold Mine, Boddington, Western Australia
Deep red cuprite crystals in a copper matrix from the Pit F0 Supergene Deposit. Width of view 8.63mm. Stack of 100 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
1731 Copper after Cuprite, Red Dome Mine, Chillagoe, Chillagoe-Herberton District, Tablelands Region, Queensland
A rare copper pseudomorph after cuprite. Ex John Roe. Width of specimen 10mm. Stack of 38 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
2046 Connellite, Malachite, Brochantite, Quartz, Cuprite, Great Australia Mine, Cloncurry, Queensland
Blue spray with green malachite and brochantite, and unidentified pale green material in massive cuprite with quartz. Ex Brian Beyer. Width of view 5.75mm. Stack of 50 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
2464 Chalcoalumite, Beaverite-(Cu), Brochantite, Cuprite, Orieco Mine, Scamander, Tasmania
Pale pink to pale blue crust of chalcoalumite with green brochantite and yellow crusty beaverite-(Cu). Visual ID by Ralph Bottrill in about 2007. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 55 images (first photo – chalcoalumite) and 80 images (second photo – brochantite). Click on images below for a higher resolution...
ncat MK2 Azurite, Malachite, Cerussite, Cuprite, Monakoff Mine, Cloncurry, Cloncurry Shire, Queensland
Grey cerussite crystals on azurite. Ex Graham Lee. Width of view 19mm. Stack of 85 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
7449 JL0462 Cuprite, Goethite, Tectonic Bore, Western Australia
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1988 from a tailgater at the Canberra Gemboree for $2.
7412 JL1467 Fluorapatite, Barite, Quartz, Cuprite, Spring Creek Mine, Wilmington, South Flinders Ranges, Flinders Ranges, South Australia
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1993 from Brian Beyer at the Adelaide Mineralogical Society Seminar for $1.00. Width of view 3.33mm. Stack of 60 images.
7326 JL3566 Malachite, Cuprite, Copper, Quartz, Virneberg Mine (St Josephsberg Mine), Rheinbreitbach, Unkel, Neuwied District, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
Ex Museum Victoria, acquired by Joan Lamond in 1999. Width of view 2.5mm.
20063 M446 Marshite, Cuprite, Dolomite, Mutooroo Mine, Pine Creek – Mutooroo area, Mingary, Olary Province, South Australia
Pale greenish marshite(!) crystal with dark cuprite crystals and white dolomite. The marshite fluoresces strongly red with Convoy UV torch. There are three other areas of the specimen that also fluoresce bright red, but individual crystals are hidden. No doubt about the locality, it is typical of Mutooroo. Width 7.5mm....
8201 M3884 Cuprite, Tennant Creek, Barkly Region, Northern Territory
Deep red octahedral crystals when strongly lit. Width 11mm. Stack of 116 images. Ex Bernie and Margaret Day Collection.
5668 Cuprite, Ray Mine, Mineral Creek Mining District, Pinal Co., Arizona, USA
Single crystal on small amount of matrix. Ex Brian Shelton Collection.
30092 Copper, Cuprite, Tonglüshan Mine, Daye Co., Huangshi, Hubei, China
An attractive copper specimen partially altered to dark red cuprite. Video best viewed full screen.
0506 Malachite, Cuprite, Quartz, Great Australia Mine, Cloncurry, Queensland
Blocky malachite crystals on cuprite and quartz.
ncat M401 Miersite, Malachite, Cuprite, Broken Hill, New South Wales
Ex Bernie Day specimen.
4954 Cuprite, Copper, Malachite, Stoneycroft Smelter slag locality, Braithwaite District, Cumbria, England, UK
ebay bayminerals_2012. Bay Minerals. Philip Grounds, Morecambe, Lancashire, England
4956 Connellite, Brochantite, Malachite, Cuprite, Stoneycroft Smelter slag locality, Braithwaite District, Cumbria, England, UK
ebay bayminerals_2012. Bay Minerals. Philip Grounds, Morecambe, Lancashire, England
7083 Cuprite, Nasbinals, Lozere, Languedoc-Roussillon, France
Chalcotrichite. ex Joan Lamond Collection
8198 Cuprite, Great Australia Mine, Cloncurry, Cloncurry District, Mount Isa – Cloncurry area, Queensland
Curled crystals. ex Bernie and Margaret Day Collection
8147 Chalcoalumite, Ajoite, Brochantite, Copper, Cuprite, New East Wheal Russell (South Wheal Crebor), Tavistock Hamlets, Tavistock District, Devon, England
Andy Tindle: Ajoite is listed on MinDat from England, Devon, Tavistock District, Tavistock Hamlets, New East Wheal Russell (South Wheal Crebor). No reference is given, but almost certainly the source is the British Micromount Society database. An XRD examination of supposed ajoite from this location was inconclusive and ajoite was...
8130 Cuprite, Red Dome Mine, Chillagoe, Chillagoe-Herberton District, Tablelands Region, Queensland
Jack and Dawn Leach Collection. ex Bernie and Margaret Day Collection
3898 Cuprite, Salsigne Mine, Salsigne, Montagne Noire, Aude, France
Cederick Gineste 2/2005
7208 JL3337 Marshite, Aurichalcite, Rush Creek, Rush Creek deposit, Big Creek-Rush Creek District, Fresno Co., California
Labelled as fresnoite from Rush Creek, Rush Creek deposit, Big Creek-Rush Creek District, Fresno Co., California. Actually marshite, etc. Ex Joan Lamond Collection, ex Roger Colling Collection.
1570 Cuprite, Copper, Gypsum, Pit F0 Supergene Deposit, Boddington Gold Mine, Boddington, Western Australia
Originally thought to be barite, but no barium in analyses, so more likely gypsum.
1497 Azurite, Malachite, Cuprite, Mineral Hill Mine, Talingaboolba, Condobolin, Kennedy Co., New South Wales
Sharp blue azurite crystals on and around a cuprite crystal replaced by malachite. Ex Margaret Brown Collection.
1235 Delafossite, Cuprite, Vaalhoek Mine (Valhoek Mine), Pilgrim’s Rest, Pilgrim’s Rest District, Mpumalanga Province, South Africa
Dark delafossite matrix with red cuprite crystals. Ex Arthur L Flagg Collection, 1950s. Ex Trevor Boyd Collection. Labelled as Vaalhoek Mine, Transvaal.
1237 Cuprite, Tsumeb Mine (Tsumcorp Mine), Tsumeb, Otjikoto (Oshikoto) Region, Namibia
Lustrous red cuprite crystals. Ex Trevor Boyd Collection.
1240 Cuprite, Copper Queen Mine (Halero Mine), Queen Hill, Bisbee, Warren District, Mule Mts, Cochise Co., Arizona, USA
Copper crystals showing dissolution features. Ex Arthur L Flagg Collection, 1937. Ex Trevor Boyd Collection.
1118 Cuprite, Gypsum, Cobaltoan Calcite, Mutooroo Mine, Pine Creek – Mutooroo area, Mingary, Olary Province, South Australia
Single gypsum blade with well-formed cuprite crystals on pink calcite. Ex Bernie and Margaret Day Collection.
0501 Malachite, Iodide Mine, Mineral Hill, New South Wales
A neat little spray of malachite, roughly 0.6mm across, from the lesser-known Mineral Hill deposit, the Iodide Mine (Mount Iodide Mine), Mineral Hill field, Condobolin district, Kennedy Co., New South Wales. Also present on the specimen – copper, cuprite, goethite and a few flecks of azurite.