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Native Silver With Bornite

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Native Silver With Bornite

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Description
Locality: 
San Martín Mine, San Martín, Sombrerete Municipality, Zacatecas, Mexico
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
4.8 × 4.5 × 1 cm
Description

This is a silver plate coated with iridescent bornite. there are several roughly terminated bornite crystals up to 0.8cm attached and a few of these pass straight through the silver.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Silver

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

Bornite

Formula: 
Cu5FeS4
Strunz: 
2.BA.15
Crystal System: 
Tetragonal
Hardness: 
3.0
Type Locality: 
Jáchymov (St Joachimsthal), Jáchymov District (St Joachimsthal), Krušné Hory Mts (Erzgebirge), Karlovy Vary Region, Bohemia (Böhmen; Boehmen), Czech Republic
Peter Crozier Minerals