Galena

  
  
Galena with quartz and sphalerite
Origin: Kruchev dol Mine, Madan District, Southern Rhodope Mtns, Bulgaria
Sample size: 11.5 x 4.5 x 2.8 cm
 
  
Origin: Buick Mine, Bixby, Iron Co., Missouri, U.S.A.
Ex. E.E. Foord and G.W. Fisher coll.
Sample size: 4.9 x 4.3 x 4.0 cm
 

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Rob Lavinsky

The Arkenstone

 

  
Galena with fluorite
Origin: Eagle Picher mine, Naica, Chihuahua, Mexico
Sample size: 5.5 x 3.5 x 4 cm
 
  
Galena with minor quartz
Origin: Dal'negorsk (Dalnegorsk), Primorskiy Kray, Far-Eastern Region, Russia
Ex. Al Kidwell collection
Sample size: 8.6 x 9.4 x 4.2 cm
 

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Dan Weinrich

Dealer in fine mineral specimens

 

Origin: Herodsfoot mine, Lanreath, Cornwall, England, UK
Sample size: 2 mm crystal group
Owner: Steve Rust
 
  
Origin: Brownley Hill (Bloomsberry) Mine, Nenthead, Alston Moor District, North Pennines, Cumbria, England, UK
Sample size: galena crystals to 2 cm on quartz collected from the replacement flats area (left), 2.5 cm cubo-octahedral crystal of galena with dark brown sphalerite, on quartz. Collected from the Main Flats, in 1982 (right)
Owner: Steve Rust
 

Photo courtesy of: 

Steve Rust

 

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