About Cuprite
Copper oxide, typically forming red to reddish-black crystals with an adamantine to submetallic luster. It's a stone of vitality, grounding, and life force, associated with the root chakra and alleviating worry.
Primary Hues
Dark Red, Purplish-Red, Reddish-Brown, Black, often with adamantine luster
Geological & Scientific Details
Cuprite is classified as a oxide mineral mineral which typically crystallizes in the cubic system. Its chemical formula is Cu2O. Common crystal habits include cubic, octahedral, and dodecahedral crystals; as hairlike capillary forms, earthy, compact granular and massive.
Key Geological Properties:
- Mineral Category: Oxide mineral
- Chemical Formula: Cu2O
- IMA Symbol: Cpr[1]
- Crystal System: Cubic
- Predominant Geological Color: Dark red to cochineal red, sometimes almost black
- Crystal Habit: Cubic, octahedral, and dodecahedral crystals; as hairlike capillary forms, earthy, compact granular and massive
- Twinning: Penetration twins
- Cleavage: Fair in four directions forming octahedrons
- Luster: Adamantine, sub-metallic, earthy
- Streak: Shining metallic brownish-red
- Diaphaneity: Transparent, translucent
Associated Minerals
- Copper
- Malachite
- Azurite
- Chrysocolla
- Tenorite
- Limonite