Wire Silver

Item Description

This piece came out of Porco about 10 months ago. Typically the Silver specimens from Bolivia are somewhat "flat" and boring, but this piece is pretty aesthetic for a Bolivian Silver. It is a fine, decent-sized (for this mine) group of "wires" of native Silver on matrix, forming a nice thumbnail specimen. The mine at Porco is THE oldest and most significant Silver mine in Bolivia, and obtaining specimens is next to impossible because miners rarely bring out anything for sale, as the mine is a large commercial operation and virtually everything goes into the crusher. Most everything that evades the crusher is usually taken out of Bolivia by a geologist who has an "in" at the mine, or sometimes some brave miners risk losing their jobs by sneaking out a handful of specimens to raise a little extra money to feed their families. I obtained this piece directly from the miners at Porco, and it is one of the better wires Silvers that I have offered in a while. It is very difficult to obtain any good Silvers from Porco, so don't miss out.