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Copper with Quartz and Malachite$1,250.00
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A showy and colorful native copper specimen from Pennsylvania consisting of a boxwork of copper in quartz showing minor alteration to Malachite in an unusual matrix of quartz blocks. Thin septae of copper-red metal with a brownish patina fill fractures in a quartz matrix creating a square, geometric boxwork visible on the entire display face. The dark copper is in stark contrast with the milky white vein quartz that it cross-cuts and the copper itself has a patchy dusting of bright, almost turquoise green malachite on the display face and the bottom of the piece is almost completely covered with it. A very unusual and attractive piece from this historic mining district in Pennsylvania. Honestly, it looks much like Michigan material at first and might be easy to doubt with a different history to it, or none at all; but, not with the fine green malachite alteration and details of the form once you look closely. It is unusual, but not impossible, for Pennsylvania - a lot came out of PA in the old days! Jay was the NUMBER ONE expert on PA minerals, in our lifetimes, and it has his label and provenance to attest to this. He bought up and saw all the old collections, and was relentless in locality collecting. Jay was also a prominent magazine editor with a bent for mineralogical history of the East Coast. His journal, MATRIX, was worthy reading!
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