Galena

  
Fine cubic crystals of galena to 19 mm on edge set nicely upon a matrix of crystallized brassy pyrite
Origin: Brushy Creek mine, Viburnum Trend, Reynolds Co., Missouri, U.S.A.
Sample size: 8 x 7 x 8.5 cm
 

     

  

Galena with calcite
Origin: Milliken (Sweetwater) mine, 13 miles NW of Ellington, Viburnum Trend, Reynolds Co., Missouri, U.S.A.
Ex Tom Dwyer Collection
Sample size: 25 x 18 x 30 mm (top), galena crystal 32 x 24 x 21 mm and calcite 7.5 cm in length (bottom)
 
  
Galena with minor pyrrhotite and pyrite
  
Origin: Nikolaevskiy mine, near Dal'negorsk, Rudnaja River Valley, Primorskiy Kray, Russia
Sample size: 9 x 6.5 x 4.5 cm (top), 9 x 6 x 4.5 cm (bottom)
 
  
Galena with marcasite
  
Origin: Picher, Oklahoma, U.S.A.
Sample size: 4.5 x 6.5 x 2.5 cm (top/2nd row), 5.5 x 4 x 3 cm (3rd/bottom row)
 
Galena with minor sphalerite
Origin: Naica, Mun. de Saucillo, Chihuahua, Mexico
Ex. Scott and Ann Williams collection
Sample size: 5 x 4.5 x 2.6 cm
 

Photo courtesy of: 

Dan Weinrich

Dealer in fine mineral specimens

 

  
Galena on quartz (some of them with a coating of cream-coloured microcrystals of probably calcite)
Origin: Krushov Dol Mine, Madan District, Rhodope Mountains, Bulgaria
Sample size: 8.0 x 5.5 x 4.1 cm
 

Photo courtesy of: 

Rob Lavinsky

The Arkenstone

 

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