Copper ("Spinel"-twin)

Copper ("Spinel"-twin)A fantastic specimen of Native Copper from the Rocklands Mine in Australia. The piece is robust, showy, sculptural and reminds me of a big, spiked club or mace with it protruding pointed octahedral faces which are flaring out of a beautiful elongated "Spinel" twin at the base. The combination of the incredibly well formed faces against the skeletal "hoppered" formations of the twin itself is striking and very well pronounced in this specimen. You

twinned crystal of Vivianite

but the piece in general is in very good shape

Ludlamite associated with Quartz is also incredibly rare

light yellow “ball” of Wavellite is associated with small Wavellite “balls” on greyish-white Quartz on matrix

The specimen has a three-dimensional flowing appearance as the Opal formed little ridges here and there

The Monazites are some of the most distinct and impressive twinned crystals I have seen from Bolivia and they actually perform a color change in different lighting ranging from orange-pink to a white/yellow depending upon the light source

Robert Batic collection

This piece is a gorgeous multi-color doubly terminated “floater” crystal with fairly good luster along the striated prism faces and both terminations

well-crystallized terminated

Specimen # AMAZWH111927

The piece is highlighted at the top by a wonderful dodecahedral crystal of Copper with both smooth well-formed positive faces and skeletal or "hoppered" negative faces sitting atop an elongated group of "Spinel"-twins which branch out along the length of the specimen

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