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Native silver on native arsenic

Germany, Saxony, Zwickau District, Hartenstein, Shaft 371

Native silver on native arsenic
Native silver on native arsenic
Native silver on native arsenic
Native silver on native arsenic
Native silver on native arsenic
Native silver on native arsenic
Native silver on native arsenic
Native silver on native arsenic
Native silver on native arsenic
Native silver on native arsenic
Native silver on native arsenic
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Article code:  I.A.0120.019
Specimens of native silver usually consist of wires that are curved and intertwined together. This specimen from Hartenstein, Shaft 371. This specimen has dendritic, feathery native silver crystals partly covering the matrix of the specimen.
Measures approximately 80x45x40 mm; weighs approximately 0,4 kilogramme.

Schacht 371 is a significant part of the former SDAG Wismut uranium mine Aue in the Western Ore Mountains


Arsenic is a native element and is toxic.  Arsenic is usually a dull gray or black and usually mammillary or botryoidal.

We cleaned the mineral. The arsenic and the silver crystals now are bright metallic and shiny on the pictures, but that’s only temporary arsenic and silver quickly turns black again.
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