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metallic bonsai_ silver, copper + crystal gem

natural elemental art in a 3 ft long bonsai "branch"

with lustrous calcite crystal over in the dark domain of tarnished wire silver plus minor native copper opposite to the bright (acid-etched?) domain of native silver, view large for details

 

these kinds of native metal specimens are gathered by miners at

a number of places around the world

 

pine-framed Keweenaw Peninsula beauty on display in Geology Building, Michigan Technological University, Houghton, USA

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Uploaded on September 19, 2018
Taken on May 11, 2016