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- Availability
- Sold
- Locality
- Durant mine, Aspen dist., Pitkin Co., Colorado, United States
- Formula
- Ag2S
- Size
- SmCabinet 6.5x3x3cm
- Tagged
- sulfide , silver
A heavy mass of dark grey Acanthite with portions of obscure Silver. You have to look hard to see the Silver. An old-timer from the John Albanese collection then to Hampson in 1965.
- Availability
- Sold
- Locality
- Batopilas, Chihuahua, Mexico
- Formula
- Ag2S
- Size
- SmCabinet 7.5x6x4cm
- Tagged
- sulfides , silver
An old-timer of Acanthite with Silver. The Acanthite measures 7mm. The Silver is all over the specimen, but the best are two wires to 1-2mm around the Acanthite. Acanthite of this size are generally not seen from Batopilas.
- Availability
- Sold
- Locality
- Guanajuato, Guanajuato, Mexico
- Formula
- Ag2S
- Size
- Thumbnail 2.5x2x2cm
- Tagged
- sulfide , silver
A fantastic specimen and classic from this locality. It is composed of tiny Chalcopyrite crystals which encrusted fairly good-sized Polybasite crystals to 5mm. You can make out the hexagonal outlines of the Polybasite. Sprinkled upon all of this are superb gray cubic Acanthite crystals to 4mm. The core as seen on the bottom is probably Pyrargyrite. It a very unique specimen. An example of one of these was featured on page 545 of Mineralogical Record v47 n5, Mexico VII.
