A Geoscience Digital Image Library
A Geoscience Digital Image Library
| Title | Native silver |
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| Description | This specimen contains native silver (tarnished gray) in a quartz matrix. Silver is one of the few elements that can occur in a (nearly) pure, native form. Native silver typically forms as wires or fine flakes. It is rare; most silver is produced from other silver-bearing minerals such as prousite, pyrargyrite, or galena. This specimen is 8 cm across. |
| Location | Canada ▹ Ontario. Near Cobalt. Beaver Mountain. |
| Photographer | Darla Sondrol. 2001-06-26. |
| Collection | University of North Dakota Mineralogy Collection. |
| Key words | native silver, Ontario, Canada |
| Tech details | 500 KB. Hand specimen. Fujifilm FinePix S1Pro digital camera; 60mm AF Nikon micro lens. |
| GeoDIL number | 883 |
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