Acanthite on Silver, Broken Hill, New South Wales

Mineral Matters #360

This week’s Facebook Mineral of the Week Group’s selected theme is crystals with curved habits.

Some native elements often form this way, particularly native silver.

This particular specimen is one of my favourites, and features on the front page of my Illustrated Minerals of Australia – Volume 1, Acanthite to Cyrilovite.

Volume 2 will be out soon!

Below: Acanthite on Silver, Broken Hill, New South Wales. Width of view 3.5mm.