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Description
Locality: 
Mansfeld Basin, Saxony - Anhalt, Germany
Class: 
Crystal Group/Cluster
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
5.3 × 2 × 0.3 cm
Description

A very fine, highly unusual, native silver leaf from the famous Mansfeld Basin of Germany.

A nicely burnished, slightly upturned, thin plate of native silver from a very old collection.

At this ancient district mining started around 1200 and finally ceased in 1969

Mineral Data
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Silver

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