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<p>[QUOTE="Rob Woodside, post: 3768146, member: 96187"]Thanks for the Wikipedia ref. No where does it say Chlorargyrite is metallic. It says:</p><p>"Typically massive to columnar in occurrence it also has been found as colorless to variably yellow cubic crystals. The color changes to brown or purple on exposure to light."</p><p><br /></p><p>According to Mindat ( <a href="https://www.mindat.org/min-1014.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.mindat.org/min-1014.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.mindat.org/min-1014.html</a> ) The lustre of Chlorargyrite is "Adamantine, Resinous, Waxy" and not Metallic.</p><p><br /></p><p>So the metallic blob is Silver or some metal and not Horn Silver. I think you'd have to have the coin in hand and perhaps other examples to see if the hair has corroded that way or is some added metal.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Rob Woodside, post: 3768146, member: 96187"]Thanks for the Wikipedia ref. No where does it say Chlorargyrite is metallic. It says: "Typically massive to columnar in occurrence it also has been found as colorless to variably yellow cubic crystals. The color changes to brown or purple on exposure to light." According to Mindat ( [URL]https://www.mindat.org/min-1014.html[/URL] ) The lustre of Chlorargyrite is "Adamantine, Resinous, Waxy" and not Metallic. So the metallic blob is Silver or some metal and not Horn Silver. I think you'd have to have the coin in hand and perhaps other examples to see if the hair has corroded that way or is some added metal.[/QUOTE]
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