Description/Interesting Notes:
Description/Interesting Notes:
An incredible example of native copper replacing wood from Arizona!!! This amazing specimen was
originally acquired through a mining engineer who had worked at the Ray Mine!!! During work underground, they broke
through to an old, abandoned tunnel last worked well over a century ago!!! Over the 100 plus years in the mine this
piece of wood from a mining timber completely was completely replaced by native copper!!! What makes this specimen so incredible
is that it is solid and very well crystallized!!! Upon close inspection with a loupe or scope one can see
that the specimen shows an amazing combination of woodgrain details and crystalline features!!! There are a few
tiny areas of wood still remaining that are fully integrated with the native copper (under close examination one
can see minute areas of the wood altering to native copper - almost down to a cellular level)!!! This is
an extraordinary example of this unusual phenomenon - rarely do you see such fine crystallization as well!!!
Simply incredible material - a very unique mineral oddity indeed!!! The pics hardly do it justice!!!
Must be seen in person to be fully appreciated!!!
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