ZAI10 Calcite

Daye Copper mine, Daye Co., Huangshi Prefecture, Hubei Province, China
4.4x 2.6x 1.7 cm

$78

For some reason coppers from Daye have been largely overlooked by collectors.  This specimen has a beautiful arboreal cluster of crystalline copper on a sliver of matrix, with a spine of small spinel twins running down the side of the matrix.