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.
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