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Native Silver In Calcite

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Native Silver In Calcite

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Description
Locality: 
New Nevada Mine, Cerro San Antonio, Batopilas, Batopilas Municipality, Chihuahua, Mexico
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
3.2 × 2.2 × 1.2 cm
Description

Branching spinel twinned native silver crystals punch their way through a massive calcite matrix with numerous small herring bone groups of native silver running across the surface of the calcite.

Overall quite an organic specimen with the silver reminescent of some of the caucti found in the hills around the New Nevada Mine. This material was collected during the 1980's

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Silver

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

Calcite

Polymorph of: 
Formula: 
CaCO3
Strunz: 
5.AB.05
Crystal System: 
Trigonal
Hardness: 
3.0
Streak: 
White
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