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Cuprite from
Hightop Mine, Hightop, Standardsville, Northern Section-Blue Ridge Province, Greene County, Virginia, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Cuprite
Formula:Cu2O
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Cuprite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Hightop Mine, Hightop, Standardsville, Northern Section-Blue Ridge Province, Greene County, Virginia, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:68428
Long-form Identifier:1:3:68428:2
GUID (UUID V4):0
Nearest other occurrences of Cuprite
11.4km (7.1 miles) Sims Mine (Piedmont Copper Company Mine; Tunnel Tract Mine; Bootens Gap Mine), Northern Section-Blue Ridge Province, Greene County, Virginia, USA
23.5km (14.6 miles) Dark Hollow Mine (Blue Ridge Copper Company Mine), Fishers Gap, Northern Section-Blue Ridge Province, Madison County, Virginia, USA
28.9km (18.0 miles) Stony Point Mine, Stony Point, Albemarle County, Virginia, USA
30.1km (18.7 miles) Ida Mine (Virginia Consolidated Cu Company Mine), Ida, Northern Section-Blue Ridge Province, Page County, Virginia, USA
33.2km (20.6 miles) Stoney Man Mine, Northern Section-Blue Ridge Province, Madison County, Virginia, USA
55.5km (34.5 miles) Empire Mine, Northern Section-Blue Ridge Province, Warren County, Virginia, USA
64.7km (40.2 miles) Rudacill Prospect, Northern Section-Blue Ridge Province, Warren County, Virginia, USA
65.8km (40.9 miles) Sulphur Mine (Crenshaw Mine; Victoria Furnace Mine), Mineral, Gold-Pyrite Belt, Louisa County, Virginia, USA
69.6km (43.2 miles) Manassas Gap Mine, Northern Section-Blue Ridge Province, Fauquier County, Virginia, USA
72.1km (44.8 miles) Sealoch Mine (Ravenswood Mine; Sealock Mine; Marshall Mine; Old Sealoch Mine), Northern Section-Blue Ridge Province, Warren County, Virginia, USA
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