Description: Grey silver sheets on reddish grey massive hornstein quartz. Very old sample (8 cm in width) from Johanngeorgenstadt, Erzgebirge, Saxony. The mining district of Johanngeorgenstadt is not as well-known as Freiberg or Schneeberg, mineral specimens from there are rare. Famous are the mimetites (type locality) but also good silver minerals were found (notwithstanding you don´t see them that often). With two old labels.

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