Detailed information
Dimensions
43 x 36 x 27
mm
Locality
Schlema Erzgebirge, Saxony Germany
Condition
No recorded repairs
A vuggy mass of intergrown, crude, metallic silvery-black Acanthite crystals on a thin granular matrix of sandy-tan quartz. Acanthite is the low-temperature paramorph of the silver sulphide Argentite; at ambient room temperature, only Acanthite can exist. By convention, the crude crystals resembling Argentite in this specimen may be more properly named 'Acanthite after the octahedral high-temperature phase Argentite', although this may require a longer label! This is a great specimen from Schlema in Erzgebirge, Saxony, Germany.