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SILVER 1.5″ X .125″

$55.00

Silver is a native metallic element that crystallizes in the cubic system and has a metallic luster and silver-white color that usually tarnishes to brown or black. It is collected for its interesting variety of crystal, plate, wire, and arborescent forms.

 Locality: Huangtongxiang Mine, Lujiang County, Chaohu Prefecture, Anhiu Province, China

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SILVER

 

HISTORY, NAME, LOCALITIES: Silver has been known since antiquity and is thought to be the third metal, after gold and copper, to be collected and utilized.  Its name stems from the Old High German silber.  Specimens of native silver are collected in Norway China, Mexico, Germany, Austria, Peru, Bolivia, Australia, Canada, Namibia, and the United States (Michigan, Colorado, Idaho, California, New Mexico).

 

MINERALOGY, PROPERTIES, OCCURRENCE: Silver [native metal, Ag] crystallizes in the cubic system as cubes, octahedrons, and dodecahedrons, and also as grains, scales, sheets, wires, and dendritic and arborescent forms.  Its color is silver-white to gray-white on fresh surfaces, but tarnishes to yellow, brown, or black.  Opaque with a metallic luster, silver has a Mohs hardness of 2.5-3.0, a specific gravity of 10.1-11.1, and is extremely ductile.  Native silver occurs with native copper in basaltic volcanic rocks; it is also found in high-temperature hydrothermal veins.

 

METAPHYSICAL PROPERTIES, LORE, USES: Metaphysical practitioners believe that silver mirrors the soul, reduces negative energies, increases intuitive and psychic energies, enhances the positive energies of gemstones, and improves and brings eloquence to speech.  Silver has played a major role in history as a coinage and jewelry metal and store of wealth.  Many cultures have associated its clean, white color with the moon.  Silver has important technological uses in medicine, photography, silver-oxide batteries, electrical and electronic components, and special alloys.

 

COLLECTORS’ INFORMATION:  Collectors value native silver for its rarity and wide variety of interesting forms.

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