Silver
St Georg Mine, Schneeberg, Erzgebirgskreis, Saxony, Germany
This native silver is 7½ cm wide and is in the Senckenberg Natural History Collections, Dresden, Germany. This specimen is one of the two oldest traceable mineral specimens (Peter Bancroft, Mineralogical Record, vol. 19, no. 1, Jan-Feb 1988, p. 18; and Werner Lieber and Hermann Leyerzapf, Mineralogical Record, vol. 17, no. 1, Jan-Feb, 1986, p. ...
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