Skeletal crystal
Origin: Joplin area, Missouri, USA
Sample size: 4 x 4 x 3 cm
Origin: Huanzala, Peru
Sample size: 6 x 5 x 3 cm, crystals to 8 mm
Galena with a preferential coating of
pyrite on
some faces
Origin: Magmont mine, Bixby, Iron Co., Missouri, USA
Sample size: 8 x 6 x 4 cm, crystals to 2 cm
Galena with
calcite
Origin: Indian Creek mine, Potosi, Missouri, USA
Sample size: 5 x 4 x 3 cm, galena about 1 cm, calcite crystal about 3 cm
Galena with
marcasite
Origin: Sweetwater mine, Reynolds Co., Missouri, USA
Sample size: 3 x 3 x 2 cm, cubic crystal 1.5 cm
Galena with
quartz
Origin: Bingham, Socorro Co., New Mexico, U.S.A.
Sample size: 7 x 6 x 4 cm with several galena cubes to 1.5 cm frosted over on
selective faces with drusy
quartz
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