#native silver

[noosphe-re]

A pure (>99.95%) silver crystal, synthetic electrolytic made with visible dendritic structures. Weight ≈11g. this image was made from 12 single pictures via focus stacking (source)

[mineralsandsomerocks]

Native Silver (tarnished yellow) overgrown by Nickeline (pink) and Rammelsbergite (whitish grey rim on Nickeline) and Gersdorffite (light grey, euhedral crystals) and partially replaced by intergrown Acanthite (dull, scratched grey) and Stephanite (slightly lighter, "cleaner" grey)

Locality: Easter-Duffy Deposit, Greater Slave Lake, Northwest Territories, Canada

Plane Polarized Reflected Light, 50X Magnification

Have not had time to take new pictures of my newer rocks, as I have been super busy working on my MSc, so I thought I would upload some reflected light images from my thesis! If it seems like these are something folks want to see, I have loads more where this came from. Plus tumblr has a lack of reflected light microscopy images anyways. Feel free to reach out if you have any questions about this stuff!

[beeapartments]

I’m home, here is the rock haul minus one thing because I ran out of space!

[emberhamster]

Somewhere far away, beyond the horizon, in the endless ocean where not a single shark can swim, but for a ship this is certain death, there is a silent figure. Silver veins intertwine into a pensive face with five cavities in which round irises are barely visible, as faded as the ghost of a moon disc in the fog. The black diadem mercilessly breaks low-flying clouds. Native Silver is biding its time, letting the ancient waters cradle their colossal wings. What is it waiting for?

[rockon-ro]

Native Silver crystals on white calcite from Bouismas, Bou Azzer District, Tazenakht, Morocco.

[motionoftruth]

(via Native Silver/ Candle Burning at Both Ends/ Handmade/ Sterling | Etsy)

by EarthToChandra

[hematitehearts]

Native Silver

Locality: Kongsberg Mine, Kongsberg, Buskerud, Norway, Europe

Size:  1.8 × 1.4 × 1.2 cm

[earthstory]

Native silver sculpture As the heated waters of the deep earth forced their way into the spaces in the rock through which they were percolating, they encountered a different chemistry, forcing them to precipitate their cargo of precious metal into the joints of the surrounding gangue. The result resembles something one might see in an ethnographic museum, filled with artefacts from different world cultures, rather than the creation of our wonderful planet that it actually is. The specimen was mined at Batopilas, in the in the Chihuahua province of Mexico in 1968, and measures 5.1 x 3.5 x 3.2 cm . Loz Image credit: Joe Budd/Rob Lavinsky/iRocks.com