mineral general info

Origin: Cobalt, Ontario, Canada

Sample size: 2.5 x 2.5 x 1.8 cm

This is a sheet of native silver still embedded in its matrix of bornite

Origin: San Martin Mine, San Martin, Zacatecas, Mexico

Sample size: 5.1 x 3 x 1.7 cm (top), 4.7 x 4.4 x 1.6 cm (2nd row), 6.4 x 3.5 x 0.8 cm (bottom)

Origin: Imiter Mine, Dades Region, Anti-Atlas Mts., Morocco

Sample size: 1.7 x 1.6 x 1.0 cm

Silver-copper "halfbreed"

Origin: Keweenaw Peninsula, Michigan

Sample size: 2.0 x 1.8 x 0.3 cm

Origin: Cobalt, Ontario, Canada

Sample size: 7.3 x 2.8 x 2.6 cm (top), 2.6 x 1.9 x 1.2 cm (bottom)

Origin: Keeweenaw, Michigan, U.S.A.

Ex. Marty Zinn collection

Sample size: 8.3 x 4.6 x 2 cm

Origin: Batopilas, Chihuahua, Mexico

Sample size: 4.5 x 3 x 2.5 cm

Origin: Silver Islet, near Port Arthur, Ontario, Canada

Sample size: 3.3 x 2.7 x 0.5 cm

Dendritic silver in quartz

Origin: Creede, Mineral County, Colorado, U.S.A.

Ex. Richard Hauck collection

Sample size: 4.9 x 3.2 x 3.0 cm

Origin: Batopilas, Mexico

Sample size: 2.7 x 1.2 x .2 cm

Silver in arsenic. Ex. Richard Hauck collection

Origin: Pohla Mine, Obersachsen, Germany

Sample size: 4.7 x 3.2 x 1.9 cm (top), 9.9 x 6.5 x 5.8 cm (bottom)

Native silver with bornite

Origin: San Martin Mine, San Martin, Zacatecas Mexico

Sample size: 4.8 x 3.1 x 2.4 cm

Origin: Keweenaw Peninsula, Michigan, U.S.A.

Ex. Kenneth Hollman collection

Sample size: 6.9 x 4.6 x 3.1 cm

Origin: Huangtongxiang Mine, Lujiang, Anhui Province, China

Sample size: 7.4 x 1.6 x 0.2 cm (left), 6.8 x 2.8 x 1 cm (middle), 4.5 x 3.5 x 1 cm (right)

Silver pseudomorph after pyrargyrite

Origin: Zacatecas, Mexico

Ex. E.M. Gunnell pseudomorph collection, ex Richard Hauck silver collection

Sample size: 4.1 x 2.4 x 2.4 cm

Origin: Cobalt, Ontario, Canada

Ex. Marty Lewadny collection

Sample size: 7.6 x 3.0 x 0.9 cm

A sheet of native silver, bisecting a chunk of irisdescent bornite

Origin: San Martin Mine, San Martin, Zacatecas, Mexico

Sample size: 5.3 x 3.5 x 3.3 cm (top), 4.6 x 3.2 x 3.1 cm (bottom)

Silver with copper and calcite

Origin: Houghton County, Michigan, U.S.A.

Ex. Richard Hauck collection

Sample size: 5.6 x 4.5 x 4.0 cm

Origin: Isidora Stollen, Gutwasser, nr. Budweis, Bohemia, Czech Republic

Ex. Richard Hauck collection

Sample size: 8.2 x 3.8 x 3.6 cm

Origin: Uchucchacua Mine, Lima Dept., Peru

Sample size: 5.2 x 5.0 x 2.8 cm

Origin: New Nevada Mine, Batopilas, Chihuahua, Mexico

Ex. Richard Hauck collection

Sample size: 3.8 x 1.6 x 0.3 cm

Origin: Batopilas, Chihuahua, Mexico

Ex. Richard Hauck collection

Sample size: 3.9 x 1.7 x 1.2 cm (top), 3.0 x 2.7 x 2.4 cm (bottom)

Origin: Lucky Queen Mine, Mayo, Yukon Territory, Canada

Ex. Richard Hauck collection

Sample size: 5.1 x 4.2 x 3.8 cm

Silver ore in quartz

Origin: Belmont District, Nye Co., Nevada, U.S.A.

Ex. Richard Hauck collection

Sample size: 7.3 x 5.9 x 4.4 cm

Origin: Kongsberg, Buskerud, Norway

Ex. Sorbonne Museum, Gilbert Gauthier and Richard Hauck collections

Sample size: 5.2 x 3.8 x 2.1 cm

Silver with copper and quartz

Origin: Lake Superior, off of the Keweenaw Peninsula, Michigan, U.S.A.

Ex. Richard Hauck collection

Sample size: 6.7 x 4.2 x 3.0 cm

Origin: Batopilas, Chihuahua, Mexico

Ex. Marilyn Dodge collection

Sample size: 2.6 x 0.8 x 0.8 cm

Origin: Mololoa Mine, Hostotipaquillo, Mun. de Hostotipaquillo, Jalisco, Mexico

Ex. Marilyn Dodge collection

Sample size: 2.3 x 1.8 x 1.2 cm

Origin: Quincy Mine, Hancock, Houghton County, Michigan, U.S.A.

Ex. Marilyn Dodge collection

Sample size: 2.4 x 2.3 x 2 cm

Origin: Chanarcillo, Atacama Province, Chile

Ex. Marilyn Dodge collection

Sample size: 2.2 x 1.2 x 1 cm

Silver with acanthite

Origin: Kongsberg, Buskerud, Norway

Ex. Marilyn Dodge collection

Sample size: 1.4 x 1 x .9 cm (top), 2.5 x 2 x 1.1 cm (bottom)

Origin: Kongsberg, Norway

Sample size: 2.7 x 1.1 x 1 cm (top), 2.2 x 2.1 x 0.5 cm (2nd row), 3 x 1.5 x 1.2 cm (bottom)

Origin: Hot Creek, Elko Co., Nevada, U.S.A.

Ex. Richard Hauck collection

Sample size: 8.3 x 6.0 x 2.4 cm

6 mm cluster of silver wires set in a vug with quartz needles and smaller silver wires in silver ore matrix

Origin: Vizcaina Mine, Mineral del Monte, Hidalgo, Mexico

Ex. Richard Hauck collection

Sample size: 7.0 x 5.4 x 4.8 cm

Origin: Cobalt, Ontario

Sample size: 3.6 x 2.1 x 1.8 cm

Origin: Imiter Mine, Dades Region, Anti-Atlas Mtns., Morocco

Sample size: 3.8 x 3.5 x 2.7 cm

Origin: Batopilas, Chihuahua, Mexico

Ex. Buranek collection

Sample size: 5.2 x 5.0 x 3.5 cm

Origin: Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia

Ex. Richard Hauck collection

Sample size: 5.4 x 3.7 x 3.3 cm

Silver with barite. Ex. Richard Hauck collection

Origin: Batopilas, Mexico

Sample size: 3.1 x 0.3 x 0.2 cm (top), 5.0 x 3.6 x 2.3 cm (2nd row), 5.2 x 3.5 x 3.3 cm (bottom)

Origin: Huangtongxiang Mine, Lujiang, Anhui Province, China

Sample size: 3 x 0.5 x 0.2 cm (top), 3 x 0.7 x 0.5 cm (2nd row), 2.7 x 1 x 0.2 cm (bottom)

Silver-copper "halfbreed"

Origin: Keweenaw Peninsula, Michigan, U.S.A.

Ex. George Robinson collection

Sample size: 3.7 x 2.7 x 1.8 cm

Origin: Los Alamos, Sonora, Mexico

Sample size: 1.8 x 1.4 x 0.4 cm

Origin: Colorado, U.S.A.

Ex. Richard Hauck collection

Sample size: 3.7 x 3.3 x 3.2 cm

Origin: Pohla Mine, Obersachsen,Germany

Sample size: 6 x 4 x 2.5 cm

Silver with erythrite

Origin: Nipissing Mine, Cobalt, Ontario, Canada

Ex. John Sinkankas and Richard Hauck collections

Sample size: 11.0 x 7.8 x 3.2 cm

Native wire silver crystals

Origin: Chanarcillo, Chile

Sample size: various sizes

Origin: Frontier Mine, South Lorraine, Ontario, Canada

Ex. Earl Calvert, Royal Ontario Museum and Richard Hauck collections

Sample size: 13.3 x 9.5 x 2.4 cm

Silver ore with pyrite

Origin: Lone Star Mine, Mineral Park District, Cerbat Mts., Mohave Co., Arizona, U.S.A.

Ex. Richard Hauck collection

Sample size: 5.7 x 4.0 x 3.8 cm

Silver-copper "halfbreed"

Origin: Cashin Mine, Montrose Co., Colorado, U.S.A.

Ex. Richard Hauck collection

Sample size: 1.3 x 1.3 x 1.0 cm

Origin: Mina la Esmeralda, Parral, Chihuahua, Mexico

Sample size: 2.2 x 1.9 x 1.9 cm

Origin: Bunker Hill Mine (Bunker Hill and Sullivan Mine), Bunker Hill Properties, Kellogg, Coeur d'Alene District, Shoshone Co., Idaho, U.S.A.

sample size: 35 x 37 x 28 mm

Ex. Edward E. David collection

Ex. George Holloway collection

Origin: Himmelsfurst Mine, Freiberg, Saxony, Germany

Sample size: 6 x 3.5 x 1.5 cm (top), 8.8 x 5.7 x 3.8 cm (2nd row), 7.6 x 1.8 x 0.9 cm (bottom)

Silver with acanthite crystals

Origin: Kongsberg, Norway

Sample size: 4 x 2.6 x 1.9 cm

Origin: Porco mine, Quijarro Province, Potosi Dept., Bolivia

Sample size: 2.0 x 1.8 x 1.0 cm

Silver on massive sulfide with quartz matrix

Origin: Omodani Mine, Honshu Island, Japan

Ex. Richard Hauck collection

Sample size: 5.5 x 5.1 x 3.4 cm

Silver-copper "halfbreed"

Origin: Keweenaw Peninsula, Michigan, U.S.A.

Ex. George Robinson collection

Sample size: 5.2 x 3.1 x 1.7 cm

Origin: Tintic Standard Mine, Utah County, Utah, U.S.A.

Ex. Richard Hauck collection

Sample size: 7.2 x 6.7 x 3.8 cm

Origin: Silver Miller Mine, Cobalt, Ontario, Canada

Ex. Edna Doughty and Richard Hauck collection

Sample size: 5.5 x 4.7 x 1.7 cm

Spinel-twinned silver on calcite

Origin: Batopilas, Chihuahua, Mexico

Ex. Sam Nasser collection

Sample size: 3.5 x 2.6 x 1.6 cm

Silver and quartz on chalcocite

Origin: Butte, Silver Bow County, Montana, U.S.A.

Ex. Richard Hauck collection

Sample size: 8.0 x 5.5 x 4.3 cm

Spinel-twinned silver

Origin: New Nevada Mine, Batopilas, Chihuahua, Mexico

Sample size: 2.8 x 1.7 x 0.7 cm

Silver with calcite

Origin: Kongsberg, Norway

Ex. Pete Bancroft collection

Sample size: 6.9 X 4.5 X 1.6 cm

Origin: Eleura Mine, Cobar, New South Wales, Australia

Ex. Richard Hauck collection

Sample size: 5.1 x 1.6 x 1.2 cm

Origin: NW Territories, Canada

Sample size: 3.0 x 2.1 x 1.9 cm

Origin: Freiberg, Erzgebirge, Saxony, Germany

Sample size: 3.3 x 2.2 x 0.9 cm

Origin: El Mochito Mine, Santa Barbara Dept., Honduras

Sample size: 6.1 x 5.7 x 5.2 cm

Origin: Freiberg, Germany

Sample size: 1.9 x 1.2 x 0.5 cm

Origin: Batopilas, Chihuahua, Mexico

Sample size: 3.1 x 3.1 x 0.9 cm

Silver in quartz

Origin: Atacama Region, Chile

Ex. Richard Hauck collection

Sample size: 6.3 x 4.1 x 2.5 cm

Silver with acanthite

Silver with acanthite and quartz

Acanthite with silver

Acanthite with silver and quartz

Origin: Shanxi Province, China

Sample size: 4.5 x 4.5 x 2.5 cm (top), 6.7 x 5 x 3.5 cm (2nd row), 6.1 x 4 x 3 cm (3rd row), 5.1 x 3.9 x 2.9 cm (4th row), 2.8 x 2.2 x 2 cm (5th row), 4.8 x 4.5 x 4.3 cm (6th row), 3.5 x 2.1 x 1.7 cm (7th row), 3.2 x 3 x 2 cm (8th row), 4.7 x 4 x 3 cm (9th row), 2.8 x 2.2 x 2 cm (10th row), 3.2 x 2.9 x 2.2 cm (11th row), 6.2 x 3.7 x 2.7 cm (12th row), 8.6 x 6.7 x 3 cm (bottom)

Origin: Hecla Mine, Calumet, Michigan, U.S.A.

Ex. Richard Hauck collection

Sample size: 2.8 x 1.7 x 0.9 cm

Origin: Pribram, Bohemia, Czech Republic

Ex. Richard Hauck collection

Sample size: 5.7 x 3.9 x 2.9 cm

Origin: South Kearsarge Mine, Osceola, Houghton Co., Michigan, U.S.A.

Ex. Richard Hauck collection

Sample size: 6.2 x 4.6 x 3.2 cm

Origin: Molly Gibson Mine, Aspen, Colorado, U.S.A.

Ex. Richard Hauck collection

Sample size: 1.7 x 1.5 x 0.6 cm

Origin: Pribram, Bohemia, Czech Republic

Ex. Sam Nasser collection

Sample size: 4.0 x 2.9 x 2.0 cm

Silver pseudomorph after dyscrasite

Origin: Pribram, Bohemia, Czech Republic

Sample size: 9.3 x 6.3 x 5.3 cm

Origin: Creede, Colorado, U.S.A.

Sample size: 8.5 x 6.5 x 1.8 cm

Origin: Shanxi Province, China

Sample size: 3.4 x 2.3 x 1.8 cm

Origin: Porco mine, Quijarro Province, Potosi Dept., Bolivia

Sample size: 5.6 x 4.2 x 3.3 cm

Silver on quartz

Origin: Silver Islet Mine, Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada

Ex. Marty Lewadny collection

Sample size: 3.6 x 2.9 x 2.4 cm

Silver with acanthite

Origin: Kongsberg, Buskerud, Norway

Sample size: 4.2 x 3.4 x 2.9 cm

Origin: Huangtungxiang Mine, Lujiang, Anhui Province, China

Sample size: 3 x 2.75 x 1.2 cm

Origin: Houghton County, Keweenaw Peninsula, Michigan, U.S.A.

Ex. Irv Brown collection

Sample size: 2.5 x 1.3 x 0.9 cm

Origin: Uchucchacua Mine, Lima Dept., Peru

Sample size: 6.0 x 5.7 x 3.5 cm

Silver (spinel twinned) on calcite

Origin: New Nevada Mine, Batopilas, Chihuahua, Mexico

Sample size: 3.8 x 2.3 x 1.2 cm

Origin: Kearsarge Mine, Houghton County, Keweenaw Peninsula, Michigan, U.S.A.

Sample size: 4.8 x 2.7 x 1.0 cm

Silver pseudomorph after dyscrasite

Origin: Uranium Mine # 21, Pribram, Central Bohemia, Czech Republic
Ex. Josef Vajdak collection

Sample size: 4.0 x 3.1 x 1.9 cm

Origin: Lingqui County, Shanxi Province, China

Sample size: 7.6 x 4.8 x 2.8 cm

Silver pseudomorph after dyscrasite

Spinel-twinned silver crystals in milky quartz

Origin: Uranium Mine #21, Pribram, Bohemia, Czech Republic

Ex. Josef Vajdak collection

Sample size: 7.5 x 7.2 x 5.3 cm (top), 6.5 x 6.3 x 3.2 cm (bottom)

Silver with calcite

Origin: Vinoren Mine, Kongsberg, Buskerud, Norway

Ex. Oslo University collection

Sample size: 2.6 x 1.9 x 1.2 cm

Spinel-twinned silver

Origin: New South Wales, Australia

Sample size: 2.7 x 1.3 x 1.2 cm

Origin: near Tengchong, Yunnan Province, China

(illustrated in MINERALS OF CHINA, page 327)

Sample size: 3.75 x 3.0 x 0.3 cm

Origin: Cobalt-Gowganda Region, Timiskaming, Ontario, Canada

Sample size: 27.5 x 14.8 x 4.0 cm

Silver-copper "halfbreed"

Origin: Keweenaw Peninsula, Michigan, U.S.A.

Ex. Charlie Freed collection

Sample size: 4.7 x 3.2 x 1.3 cm

Origin: Pribram, Bohemia, Czech Republic

Ex. Josef Vajdak collection

Sample size: 4.9 x 3.5 x 1.4 cm

Origin: Uranium Mine #21, Pribram-Haje, Central Bohemia, Czech Republic

Ex. Josef Vajdak collection

Sample size: 5.7 x 4.1 x 2.9 cm

Origin: Porco mine, Quijarro Province, Potosi Dept., Bolivia

Sample size: 2.5 x 1.6 x 0.8 cm

Origin: Houghton, Houghton Co., Michigan, U.S.A.

Ex. George Elling collection

Sample size: 5.2 x 4.7 x 1.8 cm

Origin: Batopilas, Chihuahua, Mexico

Sample size: 2.6 x 1.3 x 0.3 cm

Silver on copper

Origin: Calumet Mine, Houghton County, Michigan
Ex. John Durkos collection

Sample size: 4.2 x 2.9 x 1.5 cm

Origin: Cliff Mine, Phoenix, Keweenaw County, Keweenaw Peninsula, Michigan, U.S.A.

Sample size: 5.5 x 3.7 x 2.8 cm

Silver on barite

Origin: Pribram, Bohemia, Czech Republic

Ex. George Elling collection

Sample size: 8.8 x 4.3 x 5.5 cm

Origin: Northwest Territory, Canada

Sample size: 9.6 x 6.8 x 0.4 cm

Photo courtesy of:

Rob Lavinsky

The Arkenstone

Origin: Peru

Ex. Don Belsher collection

Sample size: 22 x 12 x 27 mm

Ex. Don Belsher collection

Origin: Beaverdell, British Columbia, Canada

Sample size: 5.7 x 2.8 x 3.4 cm (top), 16 x 3 x 12 mm (2nd row), 32 x 12 x 18 mm (bottom)

Origin: Keweenaw Peninsula, Michigan, U.S.A.

Sample size: 13 x 9 x 20 mm

Origin: Niederschlema, Saxony, Germany

Ex. Willard Perkin collection

Sample size: 16 mm in height, about 1.5 - 2 mm in thickness (top), 18 mm in height (bottom)

Origin: Hope Bay Mines, Northwest Territories, Canada

Sample size: 20 x 12 x 8 mm

Origin: Gunnison, Colorado, U.S.A.

Sample size: 2 cm in height

A course silver-white native silver wire measuring 4 cm in length, and 5 mm at its thickest, is set on a massive sulfide and calcite matrix. There are numerous other lesser wires present as well.

Origin: Uchucchacua Mine, Oyon Province, Lima Department, Peru

Sample size: 6 x 4 x 5.2 cm

Origin: Creede, Colorado, U.S.A.

Ex. John Barlow collection

Sample size: 19 x 13 x 15 mm

The specimen consists of thin wires of native silver to 1 cm in length filling a continuous vein in a sulfide matrix.

Origin: Uchucchacua Mine, Oyon Province, Lima Dept., Peru

Ex. John Barlow collection

Sample size: 7.2 x 3.6 x 7.1 cm

Origin: Mannridge Mine, Cobalt, Ontario, Canada

Ex. John Barlow collection

Sample size: 10 x 4 x 17 mm

Origin: South Mine, Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia

Sample size: 8 x 3 x 11 mm

Silver with copper

Origin: South Kearsarge Mine, Houghton Co., Michigan, U.S.A.

Ex. John Barlow collection

Sample size: 6.5 x 8 x 16 cm

Origin: Kongsberg, Norway

Sample size: 5 x 4.9 cm

Silver with erythrite

Origin: Cobalt, Coleman Township, Timiskaming District, Ontario, Canada

Sample size: 5.3 x 3.8 x 1.3 cm

Origin: Creede district, Mineral Co., Colorado, U.S.A.

Sample size: 5 x 3 x 15 mm

Origin: Uchucchacua Mine, Oyon Province, Lima Department, Peru

Sample size: 17 x 12 x 30 mm

Silver with minor calcite

Origin: New Nevada Mine, Batopilas, Andres del Rio District, Mun. de Batopilas, Chihuahua, Mexico

Sample size: 24 x 8 x 35 mm (top), 21 x 3 x 13 mm (2nd row), 11 x 2 x 24 mm (bottom)

Mercurian silver

Origin: Imiter Mine, Boumalne-Dadès, Ouarzazate Province, Souss-Massa-Draâ Region, Morocco

Sample size: 27 x 20 x 27 mm

Origin: 1000' level, Cole Mine (Cole shaft), Bisbee, Warren District, Mule Mts, Cochise Co., Arizona, U.S.A.

Sample size: 26 x 3 x 35 mm

Origin: Sophia mine, Altwolfach, Schwarzwald, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany

Ex. Haverkamp collection

Sample size: 5 x 4 x 1.5 cm

Origin: Oberschlema, Saxony, Germany

Ex. Don Belsher collection

Sample size: 4.5 x 2.4 x 2 cm

Silver with minor calcite

Origin: New Nevada Mine, Batopilas, Andres del Rio District, Mun. de Batopilas, Chihuahua, Mexico

Sample size: 24 x 7 x 27 mm

A sliced matrix polished on top to show the interspersed native silver.

Origin: Cobalt, Ontario, Canada

Sample size: 4.4 x 4.6 x 0.7 cm

Origin: New Nevada Mine, Batopilas, Andres del Rio District, Mun. de Batopilas, Chihuahua, Mexico

Sample size: 31 x 26 x 10 mm

Origin: New Nevada Mine, Batopilas, Andres del Rio District, Mun. de Batopilas, Chihuahua, Mexico

Sample size: 10 x 3 x 30 mm

Silver on quartz

Origin: Aspen, Aspen (Roaring Fork) District, Pitkin Co., Colorado, U.S.A.

Sample size: 3.2 x 4 x 0.6 cm

Silver with minor blue linarite, colourless anglesite and malachite

Origin: Grand Reef Mine, Laurel Canyon, Grand Reef area, Klondyke, Aravaipa District, Santa Teresa Mts, Graham Co., Arizona, U.S.A.

Sample size: 32 x 21 x 16 mm

Silver and spessartine in kaolinite

Origin: Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia

Sample size: 6.8 x 5.4 x 4.3 cm

Origin: Imiter Mine, Boumalne-Dadès, Ouarzazate Province, Morocco

Sample size: 24 x 20 x 20 mm

A brecciated matrix mostly coated and invested by hackly "kongsbergite" and massive metallic crystalline polybasite. "Kongsbergite" is native silver intermixed with native mercury and is well known from this locality.

A brecciated matrix mostly coated and invested by hackly "kongsbergite"

Origin: Imiter Mine, Boumalne-Dadès, Ouarzazate Province, Souss-Massa-Draâ Region, Morocco

Sample size: 7 x 4.3 x 0.8 cm (top), 6 x 4 x 1.7 cm (bottom)

Silver with siderite

Origin: San Genaro Mine, Huancavelica Dept., Peru

Sample size: 25 x 16 x 34 mm

Origin: Huelva, Andalusia, Spain

Sample size: 2.2 x 0.9 x 4.3 cm

Origin: New Nevada Mine, Batopilas, Chihuahua, Mexico

Sample size: 19 x 25 x 6 mm

Origin: Elura Mine, Cobar, New South Wales, Australia

Sample size: 4.5 cm in height, 3 mm at its thickest

Polished slice

Origin: Cobalt, Ontario, Canada

Sample size: 4.5 x 3.9 x 0.7 cm

Photo courtesy of:

Dan Weinrich

Dealer in fine mineral specimens

Origin: El Bonanza mine, Port Radium, Northwest Territories, Canada

Sample size: 100 to 150 pieces of fine dendritic Silver crystals from 1 mm to 10 mm

Photo courtesy of:

Tom Loomis

Dakota Matrix Minerals

Silver on native arsenic

Origin: Pohla Mine, Erzgebirge, Saxony, Germany

Sample size: 5.7 x 3.6 x 2.8 cm (top), 5.5 x 4 x 3 cm (2nd row), 4.5 x 4 x 3.6 cm (bottom)

Origin: Dzhezkazgan, Kazakhstan

Ex. Barbara Cureton collection

Sample size: 2.1 cm

Origin: Batopilas, Chihuahua, Mexico

Ex. Barbara Cureton collection

Sample size: 2.8 cm

This is an arborescent - dendritic - specimen of native silver. The crude crystal form is predominantly distorted octahedra. Also present are micro crystals of barite attached to the silver.

Silver with copper

Origin: White Pine Mine, Ontonagon County, Michigan, Central U.S.A.

Sample size: 3.2 x 1.3 x 0.2 cm (top), 3.9 x 2 x 0.5 cm (bottom)

Photo courtesy of:

John Veevaert, Trinity Mineral Co

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