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Description: Silver Locality: Silver King Mine (Silver King Mining County property; Fortune Mine; California Mine; White Horse Mine; Seventy-Four Mine; Last Chance Mine), Comstock Wash, Kings Crown Peak area, Pioneer District, Pinal Mts, Pinal County, Arizona, USA (Locality at mindat.org) Size: 2.9 x 2.3 x 1.1 cm. A CLASSIC, OLD-TIME and rich Arizona specimen of thick curled silver wires on a matrix of solid silver from the famous Silver King Mine, near Superior. The piece is nicely burnished with acanthite. The Silver King Mine was discovered in 1873 and was depleted by 1888! A fine piece for the Arizona, locality or elements collector. Ex. George Elling Collection.
Title: Silver-157333
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