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What is a pyrargyrite?

What is a pyrargyrite? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (mineralogy) Ruby silver; dark red or black-coloured silver ore with a metallic adamantine luster, a sulphide of antimony and silver, Ag3SbS3, occurring in rhombohedral crystals
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The primary ore mineral was pyrargyrite, and much of the ore ran 500-5,000 ounces of silver per ton.
Silver in these samples are contained in the ruby silver minerals proustite and pyrargyrite, typically found in epithermal systems.
Another less important Ag mineral is pyrargyrite, which was only abundant in the Silver King, Husky, Elsa and, particularly, the Lucky Queen mines.
Hurst describes the vugs as containing gold, silver, polybasite, pyrargyrite, and tetrahedrite.
Pyrargyrite was a dominant mineral, occurring locally in vuggy masses, in the Cortland mine, Gunnison County.
Ore mineralization consists of free gold, electrum, and pyrargyrite.

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