Copper (''Spinel'' twin)

Item Description

These fairly new Copper specimens from the Rocklands Copper Project are some of the best examples of the species to come from any contemporary locale. Here we have a wonderful "floater" specimen showing a few smooth crystal faces on the end, which grade into well-defined "Spinel"-twins that run the length of the piece, to create a display quality miniature. The blending of both the euhedral crystal faces with their defined geometric form against the skeletal appearance of the twins make this a very attractive overall specimen. The piece is completely pristine on all sides, and as mentioned, it is a "floater" with no point of attachment anywhere. It's rare to find both sharp, well-formed crystals along with the gorgeous "Spinel"-twins on the same specimen like this from this locality. The Rocklands Mine (also known as the Rocklands Group Copper Project) is a large copper deposit in northwestern Queensland, Australia and wasn't known primarily for producing much in the way of specimens. We started to see some arborescent / dendritic specimens of Copper trickling out in 2017, but in 2019 there was a major discovery of significant and important CRYSTALLIZED Coppers.