Mineral: Silver
Locality: Valenciana Mine, Guanajuato, Municipio Guanajuato, Mexico
Description: A beautiful specimen of Native Silver with Calcite from the Valenciana Mine in Mexico - one of the most important Silver mines for colonial Spain. This piece is from the Vesignie Collection. Colonel Jean Paul Louis Vesignie (1870-1954) was an important French military man who amassed a collection of over 40,000 minerals that he eventually donated to the Paris School of Mines, the National Museum of Natural History and the Sorbonne Museum. The mineral Vesignieite is named after him.

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