Silver

 
Origin: kongsberg, Norway
Picture height: 10 mm
Sample owner: H. Drost
 
 

Photo courtesy of: 

Pieter Stemvers, Leusden, Netherlands

email: stemvers@hetnet.nl

 

     
Silver (right) with calcite crystals full with copper inclusions (middle)
Origin: Adventure mine, Michigan, USA
Sample size: 7 x 5 x 2 cm, silver up to 3 mm
 
     
Silver wires to 3 mm
Origin: Pantaleon mine, Zacatecas, Mexico
Sample size: 4 x 2 x 2 cm
 
Origin: Cobalt, Ontario, Canada
Sample size: 9 x 5 cm leaf
 
Silver wire
Origin: Batopilas, Chihuahua, Mexico
Sample size: 2 cm x 3 mm
 
     
Origin: Batopilas, Chihuahua, Mexico
Sample size: 3 cm x 4 mm crystal

  

  Silver in nickeline matrix
  
  Origin: Cobalt, Ontario, Canada
Sample size: 20 x 13 x 1 cm (top), 9 x 4.5 cm x 1 mm (bottom)
 
silver in smaltite
Origin: Silver Miller mine, Cobalt, Ontario, Canada
Sample size: 6 x 3 x 3 cm mass of smaltite mostly with minor silver veining
 
  
Arborescent habit silver crystals etched out of calcite
Origin: Kongsberg, Norway
Sample size: 3 x 3 x 1 cm
 
  
Silver crystals to 1 mm associated with kinoite
Origin: Christmas mine, Gila Co., Arizona, United States
Ex. DeVito Collection
Sample size: 3 x 2 x 1.5 cm
 
  
Leaf Silver crystals to 8mm on fracture
Origin: Frontier mine, Cobalt, Ontario, Canada
Sample size: 6 x 5 x 4 cm
 
  
Silver grains to 2-3 mm in granitic matrix
Origin: Sophia mine, Wittichen, Schwarzwald, Germany
Sample size: 5 x 6 x 2 cm
 
  
Silver in calcite matrix
Origin: Mineral de Angangueo, Michoacan, Mexico
Sample size: 6 x 4 x 3 cm
 
  
Vein and leaf silver in two large fractures 4 and 3.5 cm long. The exposed silver is aver 1 cm in length.
Origin: O'Brien mine, Cobalt, Ontario, Canada
Sample size: 6.5 x 4 x 2 cm
 
  
Origin: Princess mine, Cobalt, Ontario, Canada
Sample size: 5 x 3 x 1.5 cm
 

Photo courtesy of: 

Tom Loomis

Dakota Matrix Minerals

 

Origin: Schneeberg District, Erzgebirge, Saxony, Germany
Sample size: 28 mm
Owner: Thomas Witzke
 

Photo courtesy of: 

Thomas Witzke

Institut für Mineralogie und Lagerstättenlehre
Aachen, Germany

 

  
Origin: Kongsberg, Norway
Sample size: 6 x 5.5 x 2 cm
 
  
Origin: #21 Mine, Pribram, Bohemia, Czech Republic
Sample size: 7 x 5 x 5 cm
 

Photo courtesy of: 

Rob Lavinsky

The Arkenstone

 

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