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Floater aggregate of cubo-octahedral crystals with very well defined faces and edges, with a very good length and with some hoppered surfaces. The luster is excellent for the species. It’s really a “powerful” piece and deserves to be in any Museum in the World. It also has small groups of wire Silver forming "nests".
Hongda Mine, Xiaoqinggou, Lingqiu, Datong Prefecture, Shanxi Province China (08/2016)
Specimen size: 7.2 × 6.5 × 4.7 cm = 2.83” × 2.56” × 1.85”
Price: [SOLD]

EA56K0: Acanthite with Silver

Group of cuboctahedral crystals with strange curvatures and deformations. Hooked and coiled wirelike crystals of native Silver contrast with the darker Acanthite.
66 line Mine, Gaoliangchun, Lingqiu, Datong Prefecture, Shanxi Province China (2007)
Specimen size: 3.9 × 2.8 × 3.6 cm = 1.54” × 1.10” × 1.42”

Main crystal size: 0.2 × 0.2 cm = 0.08” × 0.08”
Price: €150 / US$159 / ¥24470 / AUD$240

EC48K0: Acanthite with Silver

Very stylized group of deformed cubic crystals. Hooked and coiled wirelike crystals of native Silver contrast with the darker Acanthite.
66 line Mine, Gaoliangchun, Lingqiu, Datong Prefecture, Shanxi Province China (2007)
Specimen size: 3.8 × 2 × 2.6 cm = 1.50” × 0.79” × 1.02”
Price: €290 / US$308 / ¥47310 / AUD$470

EG48I1: Acanthite with Silver

The crystal is very well-defined and rich with faces with the dominion of the cube. On one end there is an esthetic growth of native Silver, bright and unaltered.
66 line Mine, Gaoliangchun, Lingqiu, Datong Prefecture, Shanxi Province China (2006)
Specimen size: 2 × 1.6 × 1.4 cm = 0.79” × 0.63” × 0.55”
Price: [SOLD]

ED89K0: Acanthite with Silver

Very stylized group of deformed cubic crystals. An aerial branch is partially covered by mossy native Silver that contrasts with the darker Acanthite. Very esthetic.
66 line Mine, Gaoliangchun, Lingqiu, Datong Prefecture, Shanxi Province China (2007)
Specimen size: 5.2 × 2.5 × 2.1 cm = 2.05” × 0.98” × 0.83”
Price: [SOLD]

EK10I1: Acanthite with Silver

Group if very well-defined cubic crystals, with a small matrix of Quartz and partially covered by spongy groups of Silver, bright and unaltered.
The specimen has been published in the book 'China', by Berthold Ottens, on page 468.
66 line Mine, Gaoliangchun, Lingqiu, Datong Prefecture, Shanxi Province China (2006)
Specimen size: 3.5 × 2.8 × 2 cm = 1.38” × 1.10” × 0.79”

Main crystal size: 1.2 × 1.2 cm = 0.47” × 0.47”
Price: [SOLD]

11AT12: Acanthite, Calcite

Aggregate of Acanthite crystals, with an intense luster, partially covering a matrix of white Calcite crystals, which provides a beautiful color contrast. Mining here focused on the extraction of silver and dates back to the middle of the 16th century.
Fresnillo de González Echeverría (Fresnillo), Municipio Fresnillo, Zacatecas Mexico
Specimen size: 2.2 × 2.0 × 1.3 cm = 0.87” × 0.79” × 0.51”
Price: [SOLD]

9EF89L9: Acanthite, Pyrite, Calcite

A novelty from the Sainte-Marie-aux-Mines Mineral Show 2008. Uniaxial and parallel growth of octahedral Acanthite pseudomorphous after Argentite crystals. With very well defined faces and edges, these specimens have an exceptional luster, much better than other Acanthite specimens from Imiter we have seen before. On the back side of the sample one can see small Pyrite and Calcite crystals. Imiter mine is an epithermal deposit of Neoproterozoic Ag-Hg included in black pelites.
Imiter Mine, Jebel Saghro, Imiter District, Tinghir Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region Morocco (12/2007)
Specimen size: 4 × 4 × 2.5 cm = 1.57”

Main crystal size: 2.5 × 2 cm = 0.98”
Price: €320 / US$340 / ¥52210 / AUD$520

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