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Description: | *non loc.* unknown Almost certainly from William Hunter's original collection - bears the Jameson number "769" . No locality given in the museum catalogue, but this does sound rather like the specimen from Hunter's collection analysed by Fordyce and Alchorne in 1779: " EXP. IV. When gold and silver are found in their metallic form, it is not uncommon to find them mixed; but it seldom occurs, that they are mixed in so large proportion as in an ore obtained from Norway, and which was given to Dr. Hunter by Mr. Fabricius. The ore has the appearance of native silver in scaly particles, intermixed with a hard quartz, tinged brown in some parts by iron...." . Their analysis indicated 72 wt % of silver, and 28% gold. Notes added to the museum catalogue also suggest a possible link to Ingen-Housz, who may have provided Hunter with gold-silver ores in the 1770s, but the reasons for this are not clear: the Fabricius description above fits pretty well. | License: | http://www.hmag.gla.ac.uk/spirit/rights/ | Publisher: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Rights holder: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Subjects: | ELEMENT : MINERAL : ORIGINAL BEQUEST : | Source: | Hunterian Museum | Creator: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Identifier: | http://www.huntsearch.gla.ac.uk/cgi-bin/... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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