Description

Detailed Description

A branching group of copper crystals, freed from the enclosing analcime, on basalt. The copper crystals include a nice red cuprite patina in places, contrasting with the green basalt. Collected in October 2021.

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About These Copper Specimens

Copper has been known at Cap D’Or for at least two thousand years. Collection-quality specimens have been recovered sporadically from the shoreline basalt cliffs and outcrops, usually in isolated finds of single or small numbers of pieces. The period 2011-2013 was more productive, and since then finds have been few and far between.