Galena

  
 3 cm galena crystal, nicely centered on contrasting matrix of drusy white quartz, old Ian Bruce sample
Origin: Alston Moor, Cumbria, England
Sample size: 7 x 6 x 3.5 cm
 
  
Origin: Bracal Mine, Portugal
Sample size: 5.5 x 3.5 x 3 cm
 
  

Galena with fluorite
Origin: Troller's Gill, Yorkshire, England
Sample size: 6 x 4.5 x 3 cm, fluorite crystals to 1 cm
 
 
  
GALENA on quartz with sphalerite
Origin: Nikolai Mine, Dalnegorsk, Russia
Sample size: 6 x 6 x 5 cm
 
  
Galena and pyrrhotite
Origin: Dalnegorsk, Primorskiy Kray, Russia
Sample size: 5 x 4 x 4.5 cm
 
Galena on dolomite
Origin: Vibernum Trend, Missouri, U.S.A.
Ex. Pete Bancroft collection
Sample size: 14.2 x 6.5 x 3.6 cm
 

Photo courtesy of: 

Rob Lavinsky

The Arkenstone

 

Origin: Victory mine, Cave in Rock, Hardin Co., Illinois, U.S.A.
Sample size: 31 x 27 x 21 mm
 
  
Origin: Casteel Mine (Viburnum No. 35 Mine), Bixby, Viburnum Trend District, Iron Co., Missouri, U.S.A.
Sample size: 12.7 x 6.2 x 5.4 cm
 
  
Penetration twinned galena
Origin: Sweetwater Mine (Milliken Mine; Ozark Lead Mine), Viburnum Trend District, Reynolds Co., Missouri, U.S.A.
Sample size: 3.6 x 2 x 2.2 cm
 

Photo courtesy of: 

Dan Weinrich

Dealer in fine mineral specimens

 

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