Silver                            Mineral Group: NATIVE ELEMENTS
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Silver is a valuable metal that has been extensively mined in Ontario.
The area around Cobalt, Ontario is known for its silver deposits and its mining history.
Silver is often found in veins.
Rocks containing many different metals are known as silver ore.
 

Silver vein in nickeline 
Capital Mine, Gowganda, Ontario   CANADA
Silver is commonly used for jewellery
  • conductive
  • silvery, metallic gray-white
  • bright metallic luster
  • black streak
  • tarnishes easily to gray black
  • Silver usually grows in veins.
  • It has a bright metallic luster that tarnishes to a dark, dull gray or black when exposed to air.
  • Some specimens that you can find at rock shows have the surface coated with epoxy so that the silver will not tarnish.
Silver can also be recovered from used film negatives. This specimen shows lab grown silver crystals from just such a process.

Silver crystals, Waihi, New Zealand 106 g.

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