Sylvanite

  

Origin: Offenbanya, Romania (type locality)

Sample size: 6 x 4 x 4 cm, platy crystals

 

     

Sylvanite leafs on larger quartz crystals

Origin: Bassick mine, Custer Co., Colorado, USA

Sample size: 2. x 1.5 x 1 cm

 

  

 

  

Origin: Longfellow mine, Teller Co., Colorado, United States

Sample size: 1.5 x 1 x 1 cm (top), 1.2 x 1.3 x 1 cm (bottom)

 

  

Origin: Ajax mine, Cripple Creek, Teller Co., Colorado, United States

Sample size: 6 x 5 x 2 cm

 

  

Origin: Alpine Horn mine, Colorado, United States

Sample size: 2 x 1 x 1 cm

 

  

Origin: Beacon Hill, Cripple Creek, Teller Co., Colorado, United States

Sample size: 6 x 4 x 3 cm

 

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Origin: Cripple Creek, Teller Co., Colorado, U.S.A.

Owner: Lou Perloff

Microscopic image

 

Sylvanite on quartz

Origin: Sacaramb (Nagyag), Transylvania, Romania

Owner: Lou Perloff

Microscopic image

 

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Photo-Atlas of Minerals

  

Origin: Cripple Creek Mining District, Colorado, U.S.A.

Sample size: 4.4 x 4.7 cm specimen. Approximately 2 mm wide vein of silver gold sylvanite runs across this sample

 

  

Sylvanite on quartz

Origin: Baia de Aries, Siebenburgen, Romania

Ex- Viktor Hoffman Collection

Sample size: 8.9 x 6.5 x 4 cm

 

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