sylvanite

[sil-vuh-nahyt]

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noun

a mineral, gold silver telluride, (AuAg)Te 2 , silver-white with metallic luster, often occurring in crystals so arranged as to resemble written characters: an ore of gold.

sylvanite

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a silver-white mineral consisting of a telluride of gold and silver in the form of elongated striated crystals: a source of gold in Australia and North America. Formula: (Au,Ag)Te 2

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1790–1800; named after Transylvania; -ite ¹

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C18: from ( _Tran ) _sylvan ( _ia ) + _-ite ¹ , with reference to the region where it was first found

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Chunks of sylvanite that sweat gold in the fire.

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Experience counts a lot, of course, but I do know something about sylvanite, or white gold.

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But the strikes were rich because sylvanite is one of the richest of all gold ores.

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This side the exposed reef may have been ground down below the sylvanite.

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He 'lows it's sylvanite, same as they have over to Boulder County in Colorado.

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