7449 JL0462 Cuprite, Goethite, Tectonic Bore, Western Australia
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1988 from a tailgater at the Canberra Gemboree for $2.
Cuprite
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.
7386 JL1972 Connellite, Cuprite, Great Australia Mine, Cloncurry, Queensland
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1996 from Brian Beyer for $6.00 at the New South Wales Mineralogical Societies Seminar.
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...
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.
ncat M446 Marshite, Cuprite, Mutooroo, South Australia
Ex Bernie Day specimen. Labelled as sphalerite, but clearly marshite as evidenced by the bright red fluorescence under a UV light source.
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...
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
5155 Copper, Cuprite, Spring Creek Copper Mine, South Australia
JL1463. Brian Beyer $1
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.
1731 Copper, Cuprite, Red Dome Mine, Chillagoe, Chillagoe-Herberton District, Tablelands Region, Queensland
Copper pseudomorph after cuprite.
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...