Silver with Siderite

specimen number:
9506700

location:
Julcani, Huancavelica, Peru

description:

Beautifully twinned crystal groupings of native silver across the front of a crystallized siderite matrix. This is in super condition. This would have been collected in the very early 2000's.

The Julcani district in Huancavelica, Peru, is a historic polymetallic mining center with small-scale extraction dating back to colonial and early 1900s eras, followed by modern commercial operations that officially commenced in 1953 and remain active today. Geologically, the deposit is a fracture-filling epithermal system hosted within a complex of Tertiary dacitic and rhyolitic volcanic domes, featuring narrow veins rich in silver and associated base-metal mineralization. While native silver occurs in various hydrothermal mineral assemblages within these veins, crystallized native silver specimens from the district typically display bright, dendritic, or wire-like growth habits formed through low-temperature hydrothermal fluid circulation and reduction processes in the volcanic host rocks.

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