Spinel-twinned Copper with Cuprite

Item Description

A really fine floater specimen of lustrous, brick-red cuprite coating a very aesthetic, arborescent cluster of spinel-twinned copper crystals from the less well-known Mountain City District of Elk County, Nevada. This striking, highly stylized and crystallized copper looks like a long-striding stick human with an outstretched arm and a long walking stick. This specimen has excellent aesthetics, way better than most Nevada coppers you see. Considering the immense richness of Nevada in terms of gold, silver, and copper, it always surprises me that so few fine specimens of these native elements are for sale. In part, this is because the ores tend to be very disseminated, and in part it is also because a lot of the crystallized zones were hit long ago and specimens which were preserved simply have been "lost" over the years in many cases.