A Geoscience Digital Image Library
A Geoscience Digital Image Library
| Title | Native silver, Ontonogan County, Michigan |
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| Description | This specimen contains (tarnished) native silver on quartz. The specimen is 6 cm across. Native silver is only a minor ore of silver today; most silver comes from other minerals. Native silver typically forms in thin wirey crystals, but in this specimen it is more blocky and granular. |
| Location | USA ▹ Michigan ▹ Ontonogan County. White Pine Mine. |
| Photographer | Darla Sondrol. 2001-06-26. |
| Collection | University of North Dakota Mineralogy Collection #3055. |
| Key words | native silver, silver, Michigan |
| Tech details | 445 KB. Hand specimen. Fujifilm FinePix S1Pro digital camera; 60mm AF Nikon micro lens. |
| GeoDIL number | 891 |
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