Gold (Var: Electrum), Silver, Quartz
Silbak Premier Mine, Stewart, Skeena Mining Division, British Columbia, Canada
6.0 x 5.5 x 3.0 cm. A rich and rare, two-ended, combination precious metal specimen from this old gold-silver mine. The thicker and rich vein on one end is hackly silver. The much thinner vein on the other end has tiny, sparkly electrum grains embedded on and in the quartz. Electrum is a variety of gold with greater than 20 weight percent of ...
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