Chlorargyrite
Mineral AgCl
Also called Cerargyrite, Horn silver, and Embolite
Take care.
- Fades or changes in light: Keep it in the dark, out of sunlight and bright display lights.
About it
Waxy, horn-like crusts and cubes that cut like wax and darken in light. A rich silver ore in dry oxidized deposits such as Broken Hill, New South Wales, and the old mines of Chile and Nevada.
- Type
- Mineral
- Group
- Halide, halite group
- Formula
- AgCl
- Hardness (Mohs)
- 1.5–2.5
- Specific gravity
- 5.55–5.56
- Streak
- white
- Lustre
- resinous, adamantine (diamond-like), waxy
- Crystal system
- Isometric (cubic)
- Colours
- colourless, pale yellow, grey, violet-brown
- Transparency
- transparent, translucent
- Cleavage and fracture
- none; uneven fracture, sectile
Typical values: real specimens vary. For more, see mindat.org.