File:Amalgam-200675.jpg

Summary
Description English: Amalgam (Var.: Arquerite) Locality: Omenica Mining Division, British Columbia, Canada (Locality at mindat.org) Size: 1.1 x 0.8 x 0.2 cm. Arquerite is a very rare variety of mercurian silver amalgam containing 13% of mercury. This rarity is found in only 4 localities worldwide, 2 in Chile (Type Locality) and 2 in British Columbia, Canada. This flattened, rounded thumbnail is river-worn, since arquerite is composed of two soft native elements, silver and mercury. The placer deposits here were mined intermittently between 1940 and 1963. Ex. John Saul Collection, a native elements specialist, who obtained this in a trade with Curator Pierre Bariand of the Sorbonne in Paris. Deutsch: Amalgam (Var.: Arquerit) Fundort: Omenica Mining Division, British Columbia, Kanada (Fundort bei mindat.org) Größe: 1.1 x 0.8 x 0.2 cm. Date	before March 2010 Source:	http://www.mindat.org/photo-200675.html Attribution: Rob Lavinsky, iRocks.com – CC-BY-SA-3.0

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