Silver Minerals – October 23

This is a gallery of silver bearing minerals. Silver has been known since ancient times, variously used as a precious metal, including jewelry and currency. While much silver is found naturally in its elemental form, silver also forms sulfide (chalcogenide) and halide minerals. This gallery celebrates the minerals of silver, including colorful iodides (miersite, iodargyrite), a chloride (chlorargyrite), colorful arsenic sulfides (fettelite, proustite, xanthoconite), a selenide (aguilarite), the gold bearing telluride (sylvanite), an odd sulfate (argentojarosite), and various sulfides (hocartite, imiterite, miargyrite, argentopyrite and sternbergite).

This gallery contains 20 specimens.

Aguilarite
#1012 Aguilarite		 Andorite
#0997 Andorite		 Andorite
#1010 Andorite		 Argentojarosite
#1002 Argentojarosite
Argentopyrite
#1004 Argentopyrite		 Chlorargyrite
#0999 Chlorargyrite		 Chlorargyrite with Iodargyrite
#1014 Chlorargyrite with Iodargyrite		 Fettelite with Proustite
#0996 Fettelite with Proustite
Hocartite
#1007 Hocartite		 Imiterite
#1001 Imiterite		 Iodargyrite
#1000 Iodargyrite		 Iodargyrite
#0998 Iodargyrite
Miargyrite
#1008 Miargyrite		 Miargyrite
#1011 Miargyrite		 Miersite
#1013 Miersite		 Miersite on Cuprite
#1009 Miersite on Cuprite
Sternbergite
#1003 Sternbergite		 Sylvanite
#1006 Sylvanite		 Xanthoconite with Proustite
#1005 Xanthoconite with Proustite		 Xanthoconite with Proustite
#0665 Xanthoconite with Proustite