HISTORIC QUINCY MINE MICHIGAN COPPER INCLUDED CALCITE!

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Click Double your traffic. We recently acquired a wonderful old collection full of historic Michigan Copper Country specimens from an old mining family that were all collected in the first half of the 1900's. is a nice collectors quality example of copper included in clear calcite crystals with copper extruding from areas of the calcite. The specimen consists of a single terminated calcite crystal loaded with bright copper (take a look under magnification for full appreciation) growing on a matrix of calcite and basalt with epidote and other minerals along for the ride. This piece comes from the world famous Quincy Mine that was in operation from 1846 to about 1945 outside of the town of Hancock in Houghton County, Keweenaw Peninsula in the exceptional Northern Michigan Copper Country. These specimens are exceptionally difficult to acquire today and are only available when old collections are sold. Overall specimen size is 1.5 x 1.4 x 0.75 inches in size and it comes professionally labeled and mounted to a 1.25 inch square plastic base for display. As you can see in the photo's, this is a nice specimen but not as well formed and aesthetic as others we have offered, and the main calcite crystal does have some areas w the crystal has been cleaved, thus are super low price. This one is for the beginner to intermediate collector that read more

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