Description
A striking and showy specimen of blood-red, soft, hair-like, lustrous Chalcotrichite needles richly nestled in several vugs on typical matrix from the famous Tsumeb Mine of Namibia. Chalcotrichite is an uncommon, fibrous variety of Cuprite. These fine, old-time pieces probably came out in the 1960s or early 70s and they are rarely seen on the free market nowadays. This specimen was in the collection of Tsumeb miners foreman Peter Döring who worked undergrund there in the still mentioned period and found this piece obviously in person.