Tag: silver
Mexican Rocks & Minerals Collecting
Mexican rocks and minerals collecting after World War II was exciting as millions of collector specimens were mined and sold. During the war, Mexico’s...
Potosi Silver Mine History
Potosi silver mine history is a story of fabulous wealth and royalty mingled with abject poverty and a drama still playing out today at...
Minerals & Metals of the Bible
Minerals and metals in the Bible are referenced more than 1,700 times, using such familiar terms and phrases as "fire and brimstone," "pieces of...
Can Metal Detectors Detect Rocks?
Can metal detectors detect rocks? A metal detector can be helpful. Most people don’t have a metal detector, but it is a part of...
Exploring Legendary Hard-to-Find Gold and Silver
By Bob Jones
Gold is a native element that resists forming mineral compounds. Of the several gold compounds, only two are sometimes available to collectors:...
Silver: A Story of Its Own
By Steve Voynick
As a precious metal, silver has always taken a backseat to gold in terms of rarity, value, color, density, and workability. Nevertheless,...
Spectacular Native Silver — Rarer Than Gold in Specimen Form
By Bob Jones
When it comes to naturally occurring precious metal specimens on Earth, finding native silver is not as easy as finding native gold....
Issue Highlights July 2020
Below is a snapshot of some of the topics and interests you can expect to see in the pages of the July 2020 issue...
Synthesizing Precious Metals
By Mark Leatherman
Gold, silver, and platinum. The big three of the precious metals realm. They are rare, beautiful, expensive, and typically smaller-sized specimens are...
Silver-Rich Cobalt, Canada
Story by Bob Jones
The Canadian Shield is the original heart, or core, of the North American continent. The rocks date to the earliest millennia...
