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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Native silver in slender wire-like forms.
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This drilling has outlined a relatively narrow, high-grade zone of mineralization consisting of sulphosalt, wire-silver and locally native silver-bearing veins and vein stockworks containing variable galena and sphalerite content, and that appears continuous from the historical Lucky Queen mine workings.
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