UPM02 Copper
White Pine Mine, White Pine, Ontonagon Co., Michigan, USA
39.4x 10.4x 7.8 cm
$3800
A large and very sculptural copper specimen from the site pine mine, displaying well formed crystals throughout it's length. Although the White Pine Mine produced a lot of specimens, the bulk of them tend to be flattened crystals with a notably two-dimensional appearance-- good, more 3D specimens like this are considerably more hard to come by. You do have the flattened areas typical of White Pine, though this seems to have had much more space to crystalize, as it is covered with crystals. This piece even has a drill scar present-- I do not know enough about the various mining implements used to be able to hazard a guess as to when this occurred, though the mine operated intermittently between 1880 and 1974. Regardless of when it was found, it remains a very large and dramatic piece-- it'd even call it a "statement copper" for a shelf, even surrounded by other copper country minerals, with quite a bit of bang for your buck. I do think this one displays better in person... it's hard to capture a nearly 40 cm specimen in a small image. You can get a sense of what I mean by looking at the closeups.