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Native Silver

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Description
Locality: 
New Nevada Mine, Cerro San Antonio, Batopilas, Batopilas Municipality, Chihuahua, Mexico
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
3.8 × 2.5 × 2 cm
Description

A superb, super rich and fat specimen loaded with thick nests of spinel-twinned silver crystals partly covered by acanthite from the early 1980s finds at the New Nevada Mine at Batopilas, Mexico.

Fantastic specimen from Armin Wendland collection.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Silver

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