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(1565) Argentum cornupellucido simile. in De omni rerum fossilium genere, gemmis, lapidibus, metallis, et huiusmodi, libri aliquot, plerique nunc. Primum Editi, Excudebat Jacobus Gesnerus (Tiguri): 62-62.",{"id":190,"year":191,"html":192,"doi":11},18260348,1795,"Klaproth, M. H. (1795) IX. Untersuchung der Silbererze, Hornerz. In \u003Ci>Beiträge zur chemischen Kenntniss der Mineralkörper\u003C\u002Fi> Vol. 1. Rottmann. p.125-130.",{"id":194,"year":195,"html":196,"doi":11},18530124,1830,"Beudant, François-Sulpice (1830) \u003Ci>Traité élémentaire de minéralogie. Deuxiéme Edition [Elementary Treatise on Mineralogy. Second Edition]\u003C\u002Fi> (2nd ed.) Vol. 1 - Tome Premier [Volume One]. Chez Verdière. \u003Ca target='_blank' href='https:\u002F\u002Farchive.org\u002Fdownload\u002Ftraitlmentaired02unkngoog\u002Ftraitlmentaired02unkngoog.pdf' class='refpdflink'>\u003C\u002Fa>",{"id":198,"year":199,"html":200,"doi":11},16105653,1841,"Breithaupt, J.F.A. (1841) Cerargyrites chlorus oder Hornsilber. in Vollständiges Handbuch der Mineralogie, Volume 2, Arnoldische Buchhandlung (Dresden and Leipzig): 315-317.",{"id":202,"year":203,"html":204,"doi":11},16105654,1875,"Weisbach, A. (1875) Chlorargyrit. in Synopsis Mineralogica. Systematische Uebersicht des Mineralreiches, J. G. Englehardt’sche (Freiberg): 37-38.",{"id":206,"year":207,"html":208,"doi":209},4657,1902,"Prior, G. T.; Spencer, L. J. (1902) The Cerargyrite Group (holohedral-cubic silver haloids). \u003Ci>Mineralogical Magazine and Journal of the Mineralogical Society\u003C\u002Fi>,  13 (60). p.174-185. \u003Ca target='_blank' href='https:\u002F\u002Fdoi.org\u002F10.1180\u002Fminmag.1902.13.60.06'>doi:10.1180\u002Fminmag.1902.13.60.06\u003C\u002Fa> \u003Ca target='_blank' href='https:\u002F\u002Frruff.info\u002Fdoclib\u002FMinMag\u002FVolume_13\u002F13-60-174.pdf?reftype=.pdf' class='refpdflink'>\u003C\u002Fa>","10.1180\u002Fminmag.1902.13.60.06",{"id":211,"year":212,"html":213,"doi":214},644277,1917,"(1917) Useful minerals of the United States. \u003Ci>Bulletin\u003C\u002Fi> 624. US Geological Survey \u003Ca target='_blank' href='https:\u002F\u002Fdoi.org\u002F10.3133\u002Fb624'>doi:10.3133\u002Fb624\u003C\u002Fa> \u003Ca target='_blank' href='https:\u002F\u002Fpubs.usgs.gov\u002Fbul\u002F0624\u002Freport.pdf' class='refpdflink'>\u003C\u002Fa>","10.3133\u002Fb624",{"id":216,"year":217,"html":218,"doi":11},16105657,1938,"Pabst (1938) California State Division of Mines Bulletin 113: 88.",{"id":220,"year":221,"html":222,"doi":11},16104022,1940,"Mott and Gurney (1940), Electronic Proc. in Ionic Crystals, Oxford.",{"id":224,"year":225,"html":226,"doi":11},16105659,1941,"Galbraith (1941) University of Arizona Bulletin 149: 24.",{"id":228,"year":225,"html":229,"doi":11},16105660,"Gianella (1941) University of Nevada Bulletin, Geology series 36: 56.",{"id":231,"year":232,"html":233,"doi":11},16105661,1942,"Northrop (1942) University of New Mexico Bulletin 6, no. 1: 103.",{"id":235,"year":236,"html":237,"doi":11},1118652,1951,"Palache, Charles; Berman, Harry; Frondel, Clifford (1951) \u003Ci>The System of Mineralogy\u003C\u002Fi> (7th ed.) Vol. 2 - Halides, Nitrates, Borates, Carbonates, Sulfates, Phosphates, Arsenates, Tungstates, Molybdates, Etc. John Wiley and Sons.",{"id":239,"year":240,"html":241,"doi":242},16596174,1969,"Ramdohr, Paul (1969) \u003Ci>The Ore Minerals and their Intergrowths\u003C\u002Fi>. Pergamon Press, Oxford. 1174pp. \u003Ca target='_blank' href='https:\u002F\u002Fdoi.org\u002F10.1016\u002Fc2013-0-10027-x'>doi:10.1016\u002Fc2013-0-10027-x\u003C\u002Fa>","10.1016\u002Fc2013-0-10027-x",{"id":244,"year":245,"html":246,"doi":11},16105664,1999,"Hull, S., Keen, D.A. (1999) Pressure-induced phase transitions in AgCl, AgBr, and AgI. Physical Review B: 59: 750-761.",{"id":248,"year":249,"html":250,"doi":11},16963663,2005,"(2005) Chlorargyrite. \u003Ci>Handbook of Mineralogy\u003C\u002Fi>. Mineralogical Society of America \u003Ca target='_blank' href='https:\u002F\u002Fwww.handbookofmineralogy.org\u002Fpdfs\u002Fchlorargyrite.pdf' class='refpdflink'>\u003C\u002Fa>",[252,259,269,275,284,291,299,306,314,320,328,334,340,348],{"id":253,"source_url":254,"license_code":255,"credit_html":256,"title":7,"description":11,"author":11,"original_width":257,"original_height":258},29437,"https:\u002F\u002Fgeocollections.info\u002Ffile\u002F115128","CC BY 4.0","Photo: Unknown author — http:\u002F\u002Fcreativecommons.org\u002Flicenses\u002Fby\u002F4.0\u002F, courtesy of \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fgeocollections.info\u002Ffile\u002F115128\" rel=\"noopener\">Department of Geology, TalTech\u003C\u002Fa> via Europeana",1000,666,{"id":260,"source_url":261,"license_code":262,"credit_html":263,"title":264,"description":265,"author":266,"original_width":267,"original_height":268},5448,"https:\u002F\u002Fcommons.wikimedia.org\u002F?curid=18546914","CC BY-SA 3.0","Manfred Groß, via \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcommons.wikimedia.org\u002F?curid=18546914\" rel=\"noopener\">Wikimedia Commons\u003C\u002Fa>","Chlorargyrite-154780.jpg","\u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fen.wikipedia.org\u002Fwiki\u002FChlorargyrite\" class=\"extiw\" title=\"en:Chlorargyrite\">Chlorargyrite\u003C\u002Fa>\n\u003Cdl>\u003Cdd>\u003Cdl>\u003Cdd>Locality: Theuerdank Mine, St Andreasberg, St Andreasberg District, Harz, Lower Saxony, Germany\u003C\u002Fdd>\n\u003Cdd>\u003Ci>Original description:\u003C\u002Fi> This picture shows an exceptional and good grown piece of Matrix Quarz. Width of aggregate: 5-6 mm.\u003C\u002Fdd>\u003C\u002Fdl>\u003C\u002Fdd>\u003C\u002Fdl>","Manfred Groß",591,394,{"id":270,"source_url":271,"license_code":262,"credit_html":272,"title":273,"description":274,"author":266,"original_width":267,"original_height":268},5449,"https:\u002F\u002Fcommons.wikimedia.org\u002F?curid=18546950","Manfred Groß, via \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcommons.wikimedia.org\u002F?curid=18546950\" rel=\"noopener\">Wikimedia Commons\u003C\u002Fa>","Chlorargyrite-154273.jpg","\u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fen.wikipedia.org\u002Fwiki\u002FChlorargyrite\" class=\"extiw\" title=\"en:Chlorargyrite\">Chlorargyrite\u003C\u002Fa>\n\u003Cdl>\u003Cdd>\u003Cdl>\u003Cdd>Locality: Theuerdank Mine, St Andreasberg, St Andreasberg District, Harz, Lower Saxony, Germany\u003C\u002Fdd>\n\u003Cdd>\u003Ci>Original description:\u003C\u002Fi> Group of chlorargyrite crystals within a quarz-geode, grown up free. Width of object: 5mm.\u003C\u002Fdd>\u003C\u002Fdl>\u003C\u002Fdd>\u003C\u002Fdl>",{"id":276,"source_url":277,"license_code":262,"credit_html":278,"title":279,"description":280,"author":281,"original_width":282,"original_height":283},5442,"https:\u002F\u002Fcommons.wikimedia.org\u002F?curid=10141115","Robert M. Lavinsky, via \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcommons.wikimedia.org\u002F?curid=10141115\" rel=\"noopener\">Wikimedia Commons\u003C\u002Fa>","Iodargyrite-Chlorargyrite-122947.jpg","\u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fen.wikipedia.org\u002Fwiki\u002FIodargyrite\" class=\"extiw\" title=\"en:Iodargyrite\">Iodargyrite\u003C\u002Fa>, \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fen.wikipedia.org\u002Fwiki\u002FChlorargyrite\" class=\"extiw\" title=\"en:Chlorargyrite\">Chlorargyrite\u003C\u002Fa> (Var.: Bromian Chlorargyrite), \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fen.wikipedia.org\u002Fwiki\u002FChlorargyrite\" class=\"extiw\" title=\"en:Chlorargyrite\">Chlorargyrite\u003C\u002Fa>\n\u003Cdl>\u003Cdd>\u003Cdl>\u003Cdd>Locality: \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fen.wikipedia.org\u002Fwiki\u002FBroken_Hill,_New_South_Wales\" class=\"extiw\" title=\"en:Broken Hill, New South Wales\">Broken Hill\u003C\u002Fa>, Yancowinna County, \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fen.wikipedia.org\u002Fwiki\u002FNew_South_Wales\" class=\"extiw\" title=\"en:New South Wales\">New South Wales\u003C\u002Fa>, Australia (\u003Ca rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\u002F\u002Fwww.mindat.org\u002Floc-72.html\">Locality at mindat.org\u003C\u002Fa>)\u003C\u002Fdd>\n\u003Cdd>Size: 3.5 x 3.5 x 3.2 cm.\u003C\u002Fdd>\n\u003Cdd>An impressively rich and showy combination specimen of these very rare silver species, from the classic and best locality of old Broken Hill. The lustrous, light yellow iodargyrite is on the one edge and is the rarest of the group of related silver chlorides from Broken Hill. The sparkly, olive-green microcrystal field is bromian chlorargyrite, which is nearly surrounded by a weird, botryoidal, bubbly form of chlorargyrite. The matrix is nearly solid, massive chlorargyrite. These were mined in the 1940s mostly (with perhaps a trickle coming out later in the 60’s?).\u003C\u002Fdd>\u003C\u002Fdl>\u003C\u002Fdd>\u003C\u002Fdl>","Robert M. Lavinsky",550,521,{"id":285,"source_url":286,"license_code":262,"credit_html":287,"title":288,"description":280,"author":281,"original_width":289,"original_height":290},5443,"https:\u002F\u002Fcommons.wikimedia.org\u002F?curid=10141116","Robert M. Lavinsky, via \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcommons.wikimedia.org\u002F?curid=10141116\" rel=\"noopener\">Wikimedia Commons\u003C\u002Fa>","Iodargyrite-Chlorargyrite-122948.jpg",500,443,{"id":292,"source_url":293,"license_code":262,"credit_html":294,"title":295,"description":296,"author":281,"original_width":297,"original_height":298},12273,"https:\u002F\u002Fcommons.wikimedia.org\u002F?curid=10447489","Robert M. Lavinsky, via \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcommons.wikimedia.org\u002F?curid=10447489\" rel=\"noopener\">Wikimedia Commons\u003C\u002Fa>","Chlorargyrite-Iodargyrite-ea16b.jpg","\u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fen.wikipedia.org\u002Fwiki\u002FChlorargyrite\" class=\"extiw\" title=\"en:Chlorargyrite\">Chlorargyrite\u003C\u002Fa>, \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fen.wikipedia.org\u002Fwiki\u002FIodargyrite\" class=\"extiw\" title=\"en:Iodargyrite\">Iodargyrite\u003C\u002Fa>\n\u003Cdl>\u003Cdd>\u003Cdl>\u003Cdd>Locality: \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fen.wikipedia.org\u002Fwiki\u002FBroken_Hill,_New_South_Wales\" class=\"extiw\" title=\"en:Broken Hill, New South Wales\">Broken Hill\u003C\u002Fa>, Yancowinna County, \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fen.wikipedia.org\u002Fwiki\u002FNew_South_Wales\" class=\"extiw\" title=\"en:New South Wales\">New South Wales\u003C\u002Fa>, Australia (\u003Ca rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\u002F\u002Fwww.mindat.org\u002Floc-72.html\">Locality at mindat.org\u003C\u002Fa>)\u003C\u002Fdd>\n\u003Cdd>Size: small cabinet, 8 x 5 x 5 cm\n\u003Cdl>\u003Cdt>Chlorargyrite with Iodargyrite (Albert Chapman Coll.)\u003C\u002Fdt>\u003C\u002Fdl>\u003C\u002Fdd>\n\u003Cdd>An oustanding, rich specimen filled with sharp, 3-D crystals of Chlorargyrite to a whopping 1 cm, and also sprinkled with yellow crystals of tthe even more rare silver halide iodargyrite. This specimen is fro mthe personal collection of famed Aussie collector Albert Chapman, via a friend to whom this suite passed through upon his death. Eric purchased that collection several years ago.\u003C\u002Fdd>\u003C\u002Fdl>\u003C\u002Fdd>\u003C\u002Fdl>",451,700,{"id":300,"source_url":301,"license_code":262,"credit_html":302,"title":303,"description":296,"author":281,"original_width":304,"original_height":305},5445,"https:\u002F\u002Fcommons.wikimedia.org\u002F?curid=10447497","Robert M. Lavinsky, via \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcommons.wikimedia.org\u002F?curid=10447497\" rel=\"noopener\">Wikimedia Commons\u003C\u002Fa>","Chlorargyrite-Iodargyrite-ea16c.jpg",400,381,{"id":307,"source_url":308,"license_code":262,"credit_html":309,"title":310,"description":311,"author":266,"original_width":312,"original_height":313},4216,"https:\u002F\u002Fcommons.wikimedia.org\u002F?curid=18571620","Manfred Groß, via \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcommons.wikimedia.org\u002F?curid=18571620\" rel=\"noopener\">Wikimedia Commons\u003C\u002Fa>","Chlorargyrite, variety Buttermilcherz (IMG 1999).jpg","\u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fen.wikipedia.org\u002Fwiki\u002FChlorargyrite\" class=\"extiw\" title=\"en:Chlorargyrite\">Chlorargyrite\u003C\u002Fa>\n\u003Cdl>\u003Cdd>\u003Cdl>\u003Cdd>Locality: Theuerdank Mine, St Andreasberg, St Andreasberg District, Harz, Lower Saxony, Germany\u003C\u002Fdd>\n\u003Cdd>\u003Ci>Original description:\u003C\u002Fi> Chlorargyrite step, variety \"buttermilk ore\", dried-in condition. Size overall: 17cm, height 14cm. I found the step by myself in 1995 on the old pit Theuerdank in St. Andrew on the berry mountain. When it came into daylight, it was white like snow, but after about 45 minutes, it became so gray-blue, as it is to see now. The blue-gray areas are in the form of buttermilk ore, the light to dark brown areas are \"earthy brown silver\". The matrix of the step consists of a quartz band and calcite. The buttermilk ore has two special features: On the one hand, once upon a time it was liquid and on the other hand, it has a photochromic character.\u003C\u002Fdd>\u003C\u002Fdl>\u003C\u002Fdd>\u003C\u002Fdl>",2272,1704,{"id":315,"source_url":316,"license_code":262,"credit_html":317,"title":318,"description":319,"author":266,"original_width":312,"original_height":313},4217,"https:\u002F\u002Fcommons.wikimedia.org\u002F?curid=18571687","Manfred Groß, via \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcommons.wikimedia.org\u002F?curid=18571687\" rel=\"noopener\">Wikimedia Commons\u003C\u002Fa>","Chlorargyrite, variety Buttermilcherz (IMG 2000).jpg","\u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fen.wikipedia.org\u002Fwiki\u002FChlorargyrite\" class=\"extiw\" title=\"en:Chlorargyrite\">Chlorargyrite\u003C\u002Fa>\n\u003Cdl>\u003Cdd>\u003Cdl>\u003Cdd>Locality: Theuerdank Mine, St Andreasberg, St Andreasberg District, Harz, Lower Saxony, Germany\u003C\u002Fdd>\n\u003Cdd>\u003Ci>Original description:\u003C\u002Fi> Chlorargyrite step, variety \"buttermilk ore\", dried-in condition. Detailed section (Width: 5 cm). I found the step by myself in 1995 on the old pit Theuerdank in St. Andrew on the berry mountain. When it came into daylight, it was white like snow, but after about 45 minutes, it became so gray-blue, as it is to see now. The blue-gray areas are in the form of buttermilk ore, the light to dark brown areas are \"earthy brown silver\". The matrix of the step consists of a quartz band and calcite. The buttermilk ore has two special features: On the one hand, once upon a time it was liquid and on the other hand, it has a photochromic character.\u003C\u002Fdd>\u003C\u002Fdl>\u003C\u002Fdd>\u003C\u002Fdl>",{"id":321,"source_url":322,"license_code":262,"credit_html":323,"title":324,"description":325,"author":281,"original_width":326,"original_height":327},60896,"https:\u002F\u002Fcommons.wikimedia.org\u002F?curid=10126326","Robert M. Lavinsky, via \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcommons.wikimedia.org\u002F?curid=10126326\" rel=\"noopener\">Wikimedia Commons\u003C\u002Fa>","Iodargyrite-Chlorargyrite-38069.jpg","\u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fen.wikipedia.org\u002Fwiki\u002FIodargyrite\" class=\"extiw\" title=\"en:Iodargyrite\">Iodargyrite\u003C\u002Fa>, \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fen.wikipedia.org\u002Fwiki\u002FChlorargyrite\" class=\"extiw\" title=\"en:Chlorargyrite\">Chlorargyrite\u003C\u002Fa>\n\u003Cdl>\u003Cdd>\u003Cdl>\u003Cdd>Locality: \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fen.wikipedia.org\u002Fwiki\u002FBroken_Hill,_New_South_Wales\" class=\"extiw\" title=\"en:Broken Hill, New South Wales\">Broken Hill\u003C\u002Fa>, Yancowinna County, \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fen.wikipedia.org\u002Fwiki\u002FNew_South_Wales\" class=\"extiw\" title=\"en:New South Wales\">New South Wales\u003C\u002Fa>, Australia (\u003Ca rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\u002F\u002Fwww.mindat.org\u002Floc-72.html\">Locality at mindat.org\u003C\u002Fa>)\u003C\u002Fdd>\n\u003Cdd>CLASSIC, old material from Broken Hill of a lustrous and gemmy, 3 mm, yellow chlorargyrite crystal nestled in a vug in matrix with micro iodargyrite crystals. This is old material from the upper oxidized zone of the mine. 5.7 x 3.2 x 2.9 cm\u003C\u002Fdd>\u003C\u002Fdl>\u003C\u002Fdd>\u003C\u002Fdl>",600,402,{"id":329,"source_url":330,"license_code":262,"credit_html":331,"title":332,"description":296,"author":281,"original_width":304,"original_height":333},60899,"https:\u002F\u002Fcommons.wikimedia.org\u002F?curid=10447491","Robert M. Lavinsky, via \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcommons.wikimedia.org\u002F?curid=10447491\" rel=\"noopener\">Wikimedia Commons\u003C\u002Fa>","Chlorargyrite-Iodargyrite-ea16e.jpg",284,{"id":335,"source_url":336,"license_code":262,"credit_html":337,"title":338,"description":296,"author":281,"original_width":304,"original_height":339},60900,"https:\u002F\u002Fcommons.wikimedia.org\u002F?curid=10447493","Robert M. Lavinsky, via \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcommons.wikimedia.org\u002F?curid=10447493\" rel=\"noopener\">Wikimedia Commons\u003C\u002Fa>","Chlorargyrite-Iodargyrite-ea16d.jpg",324,{"id":341,"source_url":342,"license_code":262,"credit_html":343,"title":344,"description":345,"author":281,"original_width":346,"original_height":347},60901,"https:\u002F\u002Fcommons.wikimedia.org\u002F?curid=10461060","Robert M. Lavinsky, via \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcommons.wikimedia.org\u002F?curid=10461060\" rel=\"noopener\">Wikimedia Commons\u003C\u002Fa>","Chlorargyrite-Iodargyrite-rare08-2-97a.jpg","\u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fen.wikipedia.org\u002Fwiki\u002FChlorargyrite\" class=\"extiw\" title=\"en:Chlorargyrite\">Chlorargyrite\u003C\u002Fa>, \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fen.wikipedia.org\u002Fwiki\u002FIodargyrite\" class=\"extiw\" title=\"en:Iodargyrite\">Iodargyrite\u003C\u002Fa>\n\u003Cdl>\u003Cdd>\u003Cdl>\u003Cdd>Locality: Block 14 Opencut, \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fen.wikipedia.org\u002Fwiki\u002FBroken_Hill,_New_South_Wales\" class=\"extiw\" title=\"en:Broken Hill, New South Wales\">Broken Hill\u003C\u002Fa>, Yancowinna County, \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fen.wikipedia.org\u002Fwiki\u002FNew_South_Wales\" class=\"extiw\" title=\"en:New South Wales\">New South Wales\u003C\u002Fa>, Australia (\u003Ca rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\u002F\u002Fwww.mindat.org\u002Floc-73.html\">Locality at mindat.org\u003C\u002Fa>)\u003C\u002Fdd>\n\u003Cdd>Size: cabinet, 11 x 7 x 4.5 cm\n\u003Cdl>\u003Cdt>Chlorargyrite (Bromian-rich) with Iodargyrite\u003C\u002Fdt>\u003C\u002Fdl>\u003C\u002Fdd>\n\u003Cdd>Broken Hill is the world's premier locality for this rare \"simple\" silver halide, found here generally in the 1950s or prior. Once called \"Embolite\", they are now referred to more specifically as bromian Chlorargyrite (bromine or iodine rich silver chloride depending on the rati of Br to I ). This large display-quality specimen is approx 4 x 3 inches and has SHARP xls, dozens of sharp crystals, to 6mm individually and in clusters to 1 cm. They have a pretty yellow-green color, the best I have seen for chlorargyrite that doesn't cross into iodargyrite. This color and lustre is not ruined by exposure to sunlight as with some specimens. Small yellow crystals in the background are the rarer species, iodargyrite - and they provide a nice accent. This is a major piece that once resided in the private collection of Albert Chapman, Australia's most well-known collector. He donated or sold parts of the collection but kept til his passing the core suite of silver halides from Broken Hill which he had assembled over many years. This collection then passed on to a friend of his, who did the analytical work for Chapman and treasured them as well. This collection then sold intact in 2004 to Eric Asselborn, from whom I obtained the suite 2 years ago. While lesser examples of this mineral and its related species are available on the market, few cabinet specimens of any display quality are available, let alone with such pedigree and documentation. Note the analytical data\u003C\u002Fdd>\u003C\u002Fdl>\u003C\u002Fdd>\u003C\u002Fdl>",771,800,{"id":349,"source_url":350,"license_code":262,"credit_html":351,"title":352,"description":345,"author":281,"original_width":353,"original_height":304},60902,"https:\u002F\u002Fcommons.wikimedia.org\u002F?curid=10461062","Robert M. Lavinsky, via \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcommons.wikimedia.org\u002F?curid=10461062\" rel=\"noopener\">Wikimedia Commons\u003C\u002Fa>","Chlorargyrite-Iodargyrite-rare08-2-97b.jpg",288,[355,361],{"id":356,"url":357,"label":358,"formula":359,"spacegroup":360,"year":245},2634,"\u002Fcif\u002F2634.cif","Hull 1999","Ag Cl","F m 3 m",{"id":362,"url":363,"label":364,"formula":359,"spacegroup":360,"year":365},2640,"\u002Fcif\u002F2640.cif","Wyckoff 1963",1963,[367,368,369,370,371,372,373,374,375,376,377,378,379,380,381,382,383,384,385,386,387,388,389,390,391,392,393,394,395,396,397,398,399,400,401,402,403,404,405,406,407,408,409,410],"Argent corné","Argent cornea","Argent muriaté","Argento sulphure et arsenico mineralisatum","Argentum cornu pellucido simile","Argyroceratit","Argyroceratita","Argyroceratite","Cerargerit","Cerargerita","Cerargerite","Cerargyrit","Cerargyrita","Cerargyrite","Cerargyrites","Cherargirio","Chlorargyriet","Chlorsilber","Chlorsilberspath","Chlorsilfver","Chlorure d'argent","Corneous Silver","Horn Silver","Horn-Silfver","Hornerz","Hornfarbs-Silber","Hornsilber","Hornsølv","Horny Silver Ore","Kerargyre","Kerargyrite","Kerat","Kerate","Minera argenti cornea","Muriate of Silver","Ostwaldit","Ostwaldita","Ostwaldite","Plata cornea","Silber-Kerat","Silberhornerz","Silberhornspath","Silberspath","Silfverhornmalm",[412,416,420,424,428,432,436,440,444,452,456,461,466,473,477,481,485,490,494,497,501,506,512,516,520,527,531,534,538,542,545,548,551,554],{"lang":413,"names":414},"af",[415],"Horingsilwer",{"lang":417,"names":418},"ar",[419],"كلورارجيريت",{"lang":421,"names":422},"be",[423],"Хлораргірыт",{"lang":425,"names":426},"ca",[427],"clorargirita",{"lang":429,"names":430},"cs",[431],"Chlorargyrit",{"lang":433,"names":434},"de",[378,431,391,393,435,407],"Kerargyrit",{"lang":437,"names":438},"el",[439],"Χλωραργυρίτης",{"lang":441,"names":442},"eo",[443],"Ĥlorargirito",{"lang":445,"names":446},"es",[447,448,427,449,450,451],"argiroceratita","cerargirita","ostwaldita","plata córnea","querargirita",{"lang":453,"names":454},"et",[455],"kloorargüriit",{"lang":457,"names":458},"eu",[459,460],"Clorargirita","Klorargirita",{"lang":462,"names":463},"fa",[464,465],"کلورآرژیریت","کلورارژیریت",{"lang":467,"names":468},"fi",[469,470,471,472],"kerargyriitti","klooriargyriitti","klorargyriitti","sarvihopea",{"lang":474,"names":475},"fr",[476],"chlorargyrite",{"lang":478,"names":479},"hy",[480],"Կերարգիրիտ",{"lang":482,"names":483},"it",[7,484],"Clorargirite",{"lang":486,"names":487},"ja",[488,489],"塩化銀鉱","角銀鉱",{"lang":491,"names":492},"kk",[493],"Кераргирит",{"lang":495,"names":496},"mn",[7],{"lang":498,"names":499},"nn",[500],"klorargyritt",{"lang":502,"names":503},"pl",[504,505],"chlorargyryt","kerargyryt",{"lang":507,"names":508},"ru",[509,510,511],"кераргирит","роговое серебро","хлораргирит",{"lang":513,"names":514},"sv",[515],"klorargyrit",{"lang":517,"names":518},"ta",[519],"குளோரார்கைரைட்",{"lang":521,"names":522},"uk",[523,524,525,526],"Кераргірит","Кераргітит","Срібло самородне","Хлораргірит",{"lang":528,"names":529},"uz",[530],"Kerargirit",{"lang":532,"names":533},"vi",[431],{"lang":535,"names":536},"zh",[537],"角銀礦",{"lang":539,"names":540},"zh-cn",[541],"角银矿",{"lang":543,"names":544},"zh-hans",[541],{"lang":546,"names":547},"zh-hant",[537],{"lang":549,"names":550},"zh-hk",[537],{"lang":552,"names":553},"zh-sg",[541],{"lang":555,"names":556},"zh-tw",[537],"Q410592",{"history":559,"applications":563},{"markdown":560,"model_version":561,"prompt_version":562,"reviewed_at":11},"Long before anyone called it a mineral, miners had a name for the waxy, translucent crust that lined the upper reaches of silver veins: horn silver. Weathered by dry desert air, the mineral dulls to the look and feel of an animal's horn[1]. It is soft enough to cut with a knife.\n\nThe formal name is younger and more literal. It joins the Greek *chloros*, meaning pale green, to the Latin *argentum*, silver — a plain description of a pale, silver-bearing chloride[2].\n\nEarlier centuries reached for stranger words. Alchemists knew silver chloride as *luna cornea*, which translates as horn silver: *luna*, the moon, was their codename for the metal[3]. A separate older mineral name, cerargyrite, was used for the same substance before the modern one took hold.\n\nThe compound itself was pinned down in 1565. In that year the German scholar Georg Fabricius identified silver chloride as a distinct compound of silver[4]. That recognition long predated its naming as a mineral. The species name came much later: chlorargyrite was first described in 1875, from occurrences in the Broken Hill district of New South Wales, Australia[5].","claude-opus-4-8","1.7.0",{"markdown":564,"model_version":561,"prompt_version":562,"reviewed_at":11},"Chlorargyrite has a single use that matters: it is an ore of silver[1]. Where it gathers in quantity, it is a rich one. Soft horn silver gives up its metal far more easily than a stubborn sulfide does.\n\nThat richness comes with a catch. Chlorargyrite is a secondary mineral, formed when existing silver deposits weather near the surface[2]. It concentrates in the oxidized zone — the upper, weathered part of a vein, above the water table[3]. There, air and groundwater have altered the original ore. In arid regions, where that zone runs deep and stays dry, the mineral can dominate the workable silver.\n\nSo it is a near-surface ore, valuable where it is abundant but seldom the whole of a deposit. The richest example on record is the Bridal Chamber occurrence at Lake Valley, in Sierra County, New Mexico, which is almost pure chlorargyrite[4]. At Chañarcillo in Chile, weathering has replaced the upper ore's native silver and silver sulfide with chlorargyrite and a family of related silver halides[5].\n\nBelow that weathered cap the chloride thins out, and the unaltered sulfide ores take over. Modern silver supply leans on those primary minerals and on silver won as a by-product of other metals. Chlorargyrite is a local, supplementary ore rather than a main source."]