Photos of Natural Silver Ore, Silver minerals,
This sample of rich gold and silver ore comes from the Cripple Creek district in Colorado. The mossy metallic colored mineral on this specimen is calaverite, a mineral rich in both gold and silver. The Comstock lode district was perhaps the largest single silver ore find ever made in the USA. The Comstock lode is famous for its ore bodies of bonanza grade silver ore rich in sooty silver