Spinel-twinned Silver (classic locale) ex Belsky Coll.

Item Description

The historic and famous mines at Guanajuato are renowned for acanthite and silver sulfosalt species, but interestingly, very few native silver specimens have been preserved. Probably because pure silver was too valuable. This is a showy, dense thumbnail nest of spinel-twinned silver wires coated with acanthite and probably sparkly polysbasite. Spinel-twinned silver is quite rare from here and very few wires retain their bright silvery patina. This is undoubtedly old-time material. Ex. Howard Belsky Collection. Howard started as a mineral dealer at age 13 in 1972, became a sophisticated dealer and died tragically at age 28 in 1987.