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.