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Native Silver & Acanthite

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Native Silver & Acanthite

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Description
Locality: 
Highland Bell Mine, Beaverdell, Greenwood Mining Division, British Columbia, Canada
Class: 
Combination
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
4.2 × 3.3 × 3 cm
Description

Native silver in curls and sheets plus glossy black acanthite crystals (best crystals in vugs and not pictured) from a not-so-well-known Canadian locality. Maybe also little polybasite, pyrargyrite ...

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Silver

Formula: 
Ag
Strunz: 
1.AA.05
Crystal System: 
Isometric
Hardness: 
2.5 - 3.0

Acanthite

Formula: 
Ag2S
Strunz: 
2.BA.35
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic - Prismatic
Hardness: 
2.0 - 2.5
Streak: 
lead grey
Type Locality: 
Jáchymov (St Joachimsthal), Jáchymov District (St Joachimsthal), Krušné Hory Mts (Erzgebirge), Karlovy Vary Region, Bohemia (Böhmen; Boehmen), Czech Republic

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