Mineral Specimen and Product Inventory Search
- Availability
- Sold
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- Locality
- Highland Bell mine, Beaverdell, British Columbia, Canada
- Formula
- Ag3SbS3
- Size
- 9.5 x 5.5 x 8 cm - Cabinet
- Tagged
- Ore Minerals
Large heavy Silver ore specimen rich with dark silver-black massive Pyrargyrite (Ruby Silver) with deep red internal color associated with Galena, Sphalerite, and Pyrite. The old label with this specimen mentions that this is a piece of high-grade ore.
In the Mineralogical Record's article on the Highland Bell Mine (20-6,p441) the silver lodes occur in brecciated Quartz veins in a mineralized zone approximately 6.4km E-W that is interrupted by numerous offset faults.
- Availability
- Sold
- Locality
- Uchucchacua mine, Oyon prov., Lima dept., Peru
- Formula
- Ag3SbS3
- Size
- 11 x 5.5 x 7 cm - Cabinet
- Tagged
- sulfide, silver
Try to find a good Pyrargyrite these days from Uchucchacua these days. This specimen is not too shaby and has a fairly good sized crystal to 6mm with several smaller with Quartz to 1.5cm.
- Availability
- Sold
- Locality
- Uchucchacua mine, Oyon prov., Lima dept., Peru
- Formula
- Ag3SbS3
- Size
- 4 x 3 x 2.5 cm - Miniature
- Tagged
- sulfide, silver
Miniture size specimen with a good 2.5mm crystal perched nicely at the center of the matrix and another to 4mm but not as exposed with several much smaller crystals about the rest of the matrix.
- Availability
- Sold
- Locality
- Uchucchacua mine, Oyon prov., Lima dept., Peru
- Formula
- Ag3SbS3
- Size
- 6 x 3 x 4 cm - Sm Cabinet
- Tagged
- sulfide, silver
This specimen has two good 2mm crystals with several smaller associated with Pyrite in heavy galena matrix.
