mineral general info

Galena on quartz

Origin: Milpo Mine, Cerro de Pasco Province, Pasco Department, Peru

Sample size: 4.5 x 3.5 x 3.5 cm

Galena pseudomorph after pyromorphite

Origin: Kautenbach Mine, Bernkastel, Mosel, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany

Ex. G. Hansen collection, ex. Carl Bosch and Smithsonian collections

Sample size: 5.6 x 4.2 x 4 cm

Galena pseudomorph after pyromorphite

Origin: Wheal Hope, Cornwall, England

Ex. G. Hansen collection, ex. Carl Bosch and Smithsonian collections

Sample size: 10.5 x 4.8 x 4.6 cm

Galena on calcite matrix with tiny pyrite and galena crystals, Ex. Gary Hansen collection

Origin: Sweetwater Mine, Viburnum Trend, Reynolds Co., Missouri, U.S.A.

Sample size: 5.2 x 2.1 x 1..8 cm (top), 5.4 x 5.3 x 4.0 cm (bottom)

Origin: Hermannstadt Mine, Wurbental, Saxony, Germany

Sample size: 3.8 x 3.5 x 1.8 cm

Galena with pyrite

Origin: Huanzala Mine, Huanuco Dept., Peru

Ex. Gary Hansen collection

Sample size: 6.1 x 4.6 x 3.4 cm

Ex. Gary Hansen collection

Origin: Quiruvilca District, La Libertad Dept., Peru

Sample size: 7.0 x 5.9 x 4.3 cm (top), 13.8 x 6.4 x 5.1 cm (bottom)

Galena on sphalerite

Origin: Elmwood Mine, Carthage, Smith Co., Tennessee, U.S.A.

Sample size: 3.5 x 2.0 x 2.0 cm

Galena with flattened spinel twin

Origin: Dalnegorsk, Primorskiy Kray, Russia

Sample size: 5.0 x 3.8 x 0.8 cm

Galena on fluorite

Origin: Blackdene Mine, Weardale, Durham, England

Sample size: 5.9 x 5.5 x 3.5 cm

Origin: Buick Mine, Viburnum Trend, Iron Co., Missouri, U.S.A.

Sample size: 4.3 x 4.0 x 4.0 cm

Origin: Freiberg, Saxony, Germany

Sample size: 2.0 x 1.6 x 1.3 cm

Calcite on galena

Origin: Milliken (Sweetwater Mine), Viburnum Trend, Reynolds Co., Missouri, U.S.A.

Sample size: 3.4 x 3.1 x 3.0 cm

Origin: Elmwood Mine, Carthage, Tennessee, U.S.A.

Sample size: 8 x 5.5 x 4.5 cm

Galena with siderite and sphalerite

Origin: Eagle Mine, Gilman, Eagle Co., Colorado, U.S.A.

Sample size: 4.7 x 4.2 x 3.2 cm

Galena with calcite

Origin: Dalnegorsk, Russia

Sample size: 10.0 x 9.3 x 5.5 cm

Galena with small "rubyjack" sphalerite crystals

Origin: Elmwood Mine, Carthage, Tennessee, U.S.A.

Sample size: 4.3 x 4 x 3.5 cm (top), 4.0 x 2.7 x 2.6 cm (bottom)

Galena with sphalerite and pyrrhotite

Origin: Nikolaevskiy Mine, Dalnegorsk, Russia

Sample size: 4.5 x 3.9 x 2.8 cm

Origin: Acme Mine, Oklahoma, U.S.A.

Sample size: 3.8 x 2.5 x 2.1 cm

Origin: Sweetwater Mine, Reynolds Co., Missouri, U.S.A.

Sample size: 4.6 x 4.3 x 3.8 cm

Galena with quartz

Origin: Dalnegorsk, Primorskiy Kray, Russia

Ex. Gene Meieran collection

Sample size: 4 x 4 x 2.7 cm

Origin: Joplin, Tri-State District, Missouri

Sample size: 3.8 x 3.8 x 2.8 cm

Origin: Sweetwater Mine, Reynolds Co., Missouri, U.S.A.

Ex. Gene Meieran collection

Sample size: 5.9 x 3.4 x 2.4 cm

Galena on dolomite

Origin: Picher, Oklahoma (Tri-State District), U.S.A.
Ex. Leithauser Collection

Sample size: 6 x 6 x 5.5 cm

Galena with quartz and calcite

Origin: Nikolai Mine, Dalnegorsk, Russia

Sample size: 11.1 x 7.0 x 5.6 cm

Galena (hoppered) with quartz

Origin: Animon Mine, Cerro de Pasco Prov., Peru

Sample size: 4.8 x 3.8 x 2.5 cm

Galena with calcite

Origin: Dalnegorsk, Primorskiy Kray, Russia

Sample size: 6.7 x 4.3 x 3.5 cm

Galena (spinel twin)

Origin: Burieva Mine, Madan District, Rhodope Mtns., Bulgaria

Sample size: 8.9 x 6.5 x 3.0 cm

Galena on matrix

Origin: Dalnegorsk, Primorskiy Kray, Russia

Sample size: 8 x 6 x 5.5 cm

"Rounded" galena with sphalerite and chalcopyrite

Origin: Herja Mine, Baia Mare, Maramures, Romania

Sample size: 8.3 x 5.5 x 3.2 cm

Origin: Blue Goose Mine, Baxter Springs, Tri-State Dist., Cherokee Co., Kansas, U.S.A.

Sample size: 4.8 x 3.3 x 2.4 cm

Origin: Brushy Creek Mine, Viburnum Trend, Reynolds County, Missouri, U.S.A.

Sample size: 8.2 x 5.5 x 3.3 cm

Calcite on galena

Origin: St. Andreasberg, Harz Mtns., Niedersachsen, Germany

Sample size: 7.5 x 6.4 x 5.2 cm

Galena with fluorite and ankerite

Origin: Boltsburn Mine, Weardale, Durham, England

Ex. Herb Obodda collection

Sample size: 6.4 x 4.2 x 3.2 cm

Galena with quartz

Origin: Mogila Mine, Deveti Septemvri Complex, Madan District, Southern Rhodope Mountains, Bulgaria

Sample size: 10.7 x 9.1 x 4.5 cm

Galena on pyrite

Origin: Bonneterre Formation, Buick Mine, Viburnum Trend, Missouri, U.S.A.

Sample size: 7.5 x 6.2 x 5.5 cm

Origin: Sweetwater County, Reynolds County, Missouri, U.S.A.

Sample size: 3.4 x 3.1 x 3.0 cm

Galena on pyrite

Origin: Huaron District, Pasco Dept., Peru

Sample size: 13.0 x 10.0 x 5.5 cm

Origin: 19th of September Mine, Madan, Bulgaria

Sample size: 10.6 x 10.6 x 6.1 cm (top), 10 x 8.1 x 5.5 cm (2nd row), 4.7 x 3.8 x 3.2 cm (bottom)

Origin: Hermannstadt Mine, Wurbental, Saxony, Germany

Sample size: 3.8 x 3.1 x 1.8 cm

Galena and sphalerite on quartz

Galena on quartz

Origin: Mogila Orebody, Deveti Septemvri Complex, Madan Orefields, Southern Rhodope Mountains, Bulgaria

Sample size: 7.5 x 6.3 x 3.6 cm (top), 9.4 x 8.1 x 4.3 cm (2nd row), 11.3 x 8.4 x 5.4 cm (3rd row), 10.9 x 5.5 x 4.7 cm (bottom)

Galena and quartz with sphalerite

Origin: Kruchev dol Mine, Madan District, South Rhodope Mountains, Bulgaria

Sample size: 14.5 x 11.4 x 9.7 cm

Galena, calcite with sphalerite and chalcopyrite

Origin: South Petrovista Mine, Madan, Rhope Mountains, Bulgaria

Sample size: 13.3 x 13.2 x 9.5 cm

Galena and chalcopyrite with quartz

Galena with minor sphalerite

Origin: Borieva Mine, Madan District, Southern Rhodope Mountains, Bulgaria

Sample size: 7 x 6 x 3.5 cm (top), 5.4 x 5.2 x 3.6 cm (bottom)

Galena and calcite on quartz

Origin: South-end Mogila Mine, Deveti Septemvri Complex, Madan District, Southern Rhodope Mts, Bulgaria

Sample size: 16.3 x 7.9 x 3.3 cm

Galena with sphalerite

Origin: Stratiev Kamuk Mine, Zlatograd District, Southern Rhodope Mts, Bulgaria

Sample size: 6.4 x 4.3 x 3.1 cm

Galena with minor chalcopyrite

Origin: Madan, Bulgaria

Sample size: 19.2 x 13 x 5.3 cm

Galena with sphalerite and quartz

Origin: Mogila Orebody, Deveti Septemvri Complex, Madan District, Bulgaria

Sample size: 7.2 x 6.3 x 5.1 cm

Galena with sphalerite and chalcopyrite

Origin: Baxter Springs, Tri-State Dist., Cherokee Co., Kansas, U.S.A.

Sample size: 8.9 x 7.8 x 3.4 cm

Galena intergrown with chalcopyrite and sphalerite

Origin: Dalnegorsk, Primorskiy Kray, Russia

Sample size: 5.6 x 5.6 x 5.0 cm

Galena with quartz and pyrrhotite

Origin: Tarasov Pocket - ~1985, Nikolaevskiy Mine, Dalnegorsk, Russia

Ex Marty Lewadny Collection

Sample size: 6.3 x 4.6 x 4.1 cm

Galena with sphalerite and chalcopyrite

Origin: Angel Janakiev Mine, Madan District, Southern Rhodope Mountains, Bulgaria

Sample size: 9.5 x 7.7 x 4.6 cm

Galena with calcite

Origin: Sweetwater Mine, Viburnum Trend, Reynolds Co., Missouri, U.S.A.

Ex Marty Lewadny Collection

Sample size: 5.1 x 4.0 x 3.1 cm

Galena flat and hoppered cubo-octahedric crystals on drusy quartz matrix

Origin: Madan mines, Rodope Mts., Bulgaria

Ex. Giorgio Spiga collection

Sample size: 8 x 6 x 4.5 cm

Origin: Galena, Picher Field, Cherokee County, Kansas, U.S.A.

Sample size: 6 x 4.5 x 4.3 cm

Galena with sphalerite

Origin: Nikolaevsky Mine, Russia

Ex. Giovanni Signorelli collection

Sample size: 6 x 4 x 1 cm

Galena (two spinel twinned crystals)

Origin: Dalnegorsk, Russia

Sample size: 6.5 x 5.8 x 4.1 cm

Galena with chalcopyrite and manganoan calcite

Origin: Naica, Chihuahua, Mexico

Sample size: 6.9 x 4.8 x 2.4 cm

Galena with dolomite and pyrite

Origin: Sweetwater Mine, Ellington, Reynolds County, Missouri, U.S.A.

Ex. Leithauser collection

Sample size: 6.1 x 4.6 x 3.8 cm

Galena with marcasite

Origin: Cardin, Tri-State District, Ottawa Co., Oklahoma, U.S.A.

Sample size: 5.7 x 4.6 x 4.5 cm

Fluorite with inclusions of galena on galena

Origin: Gibraltar Mine, Naica, Chihuahua, Mexico

Sample size: 5.1 x 4.4 x 3.4 cm

Galena on quartz with minor other sulfides

Origin: Gibraltar Mine, Naica, Chihuahua, Mexico

Sample size: 8.0 x 5.4 x 4.7 cm

Galena on chalcopyrite

Origin: Madan Ore Field, Rhodope Mtns., Bulgaria

Ex. Marty Lewadny Collection

Sample size: 5.0 x 3.7 x 3.4 cm

Galena on quartz

Origin: Dalnegorsk, Primorskiy Kray, Russia

Ex. Lewadny Collection

Sample size: 7.1 x 3.6 x 5.0 cm

Galena and siderite on fluorite

Origin: Freiberg, Saxony, Germany

Ex. Smithsonian collection, ex. Carl Bosch collection (1874-1940), ex. Gary Hansen collection

Sample size: 6.9 x 4.8 x 3.1 cm

Galena with calcite

Origin: Milliken Mine, Viburnum Trend, Reynolds Co., Missouri, U.S.A.

Sample size: 4.1 x 3.8 x 2.7 cm

Galena with quartz

Origin: 19th September Mine, Madan, Bulgaria

Sample size: 4.5 x 4.4 x 3.6 cm

Galena with calcite

Ex. Marty Lewadny Collection

Origin: Sweetwater Mine, Viburnum Trend, Reynolds Co., Missouri, U.S.A.

Sample size: 8.2 x 5.7 x 5.4 cm (top), 6.0 x 5.8 x 5.7 cm (bottom)

Origin: Treece, Kansas (Tri-State District), U.S.A.

Sample size: 23 x 16 x 7 cm

Galena with sphalerite

Origin: Naica, Chihuahua, Mexico

Sample size: 4.6 x 4.2 x 3.5 cm

Galena with quartz

Origin: Madan Ore Field, Rhodope Mtns., Bulgaria

Sample size: 7.6 x 7.0 x 2.8 cm

Origin: Huanzala Mine, Huanuco Dept., Peru

Sample size: 6.1 x 4.6 x 3.2 cm

Origin: Sweetwater Mine, Missouri, U.S.A.

Sample size: 5.1 x 4 x 3.4 cm

Origin: Eagle Picher Mine, Galena, Tri-State District, Cherokee Co., Kansas, U.S.A.

ex. Ruggiero collection

Sample size: 10.5 x 7.5 x 3.6 cm

Origin: Cumberland Mine, Smith Co., Tennessee, U.S.A.

Sample size: 3.7 x 3.6 x 2.7 cm

Galena, some with chalcopyrite on the surface intergrown with sphalerite on quartz

Origin: Mogila Mine, Madan District, Bulgaria

Sample size: 15.8 x 14.7 x 5.4 cm

Galena with sphalerite

Origin: Joplin, Tri-State District, Jasper Co., Missouri, U.S.A.

Sample size: 12.0 x 8.7 x 4.7 cm

Galena, quartz and sphalerite on pyrite

Origin: Ruschita Mine, Southern Poiana Mountains, Romania

Sample size: 17.7 x 10.4 x 10.3 cm

Galena, pyrite and calcite

Origin: Concepcion del Oro, Zacatecas, Mexico

Sample size: 7.1 x 5.6 x 4.3 cm

Photo courtesy of:

Rob Lavinsky

The Arkenstone

Galena with small sphalerite and calcite crystals

Origin: New Glencrieff Mine, Wanlockhead, Scotland, Europe

Ex. Frank Edwards collection

Sample size: 8 x 6.5 x 5 cm (top), 6 x 4 x 3.8 cm (bottom)

Galena with drusy quartz

Origin: Pribram, Bohemia, Czech Republic, Europe

Ex. Frank Edwards collection

Sample size: 9 x 6.5 x 4 cm

Wulfenite on galena

Origin: Mezica, Slovenia, Europe

Sample size: 5.5 x 4.5 x 3.4 cm

Galena on sphalerite

Origin: Casapalca, Peru

Sample size: 10.5 x 9 x 6 cm

Galena with chalcopyrite

Origin: Uchucchacua mine, Oyon Province, Lima Department, Peru

Sample size: 2.8 x 2.2 x 2.2 cm

Galena with sphalerite, fluorite and quartz

Origin: Hill-Ledford Mine, Hardin County, Illinois, U.S.A.

Ex. Kevin Conroy collection (KC Minerals)

Sample size: 6 x 3.7 x 2.5 cm

Galena on sphalerite

Origin: Grace Walker Mine, Picher, Ottawa County, Oklahoma, U.S.A.

Ex. Ed Rosenzweig collection

Sample size: 4.8x3.2x2.6 cm

Galena (spinel-law twinned) with arsenopyrite and quartz

Origin: Freiberg, Saxony, Germany
Ex Kevin Conroy collection

Sample size: 3 x 2 x 1.5 cm

Galena, marcasite and sphalerite

Origin: Eagle Picher Mine, Schullsburg, Lafayette County, Wisconsin, U.S.A.

Ex. Kevin Conroy collection

Sample size: 13 x 10.5 x 4.5 cm

Origin: Tsumeb Mine, Tsumeb, Namibia

Ex. Rick Green collection

Sample size: 5.8 x 5 x 3 cm

Galena with sphalerite, rhodochrosite and ilvaite

Origin: Level 5, Los Remedios Mine, Taxco, Guerrero, Mexico

Ex. Keith Hayes

Sample size: 3.5 x 2.4 x 1.5 cm

Galena with minor chalcopyrite and dolomite

Origin: Sweetwater Mine, Reynolds County, Missouri, U.S.A.

Ex. Kevin Conroy collection

Sample size: 6.8 x 5 x 3.5 cm

Chert matrix with one face covered in white dolomite set with two large crystals of red brown sphalerite onto which isolated cubes of galena have attached. Spread all over all surfaces are small double terminated calcite crystals, gemmy yellow micro sphalerite and the odd tiny fluorite.

Origin: Elmwood Mine, Smith County, Tennessee, U.S.A.

Ex. Mark Wrigley collection

Sample size: 7.1 x 5.4 x 2.2 cm

Origin: Zellefeld, Harz Mts., Germany

Ex. Grace Dearborn collection

Sample size: 12 x 8.5 x 6 cm

Origin: Mogila Mine, Deveti Septemvri Complex, Madan, Bulgaria

Ex. Rick Green collection

Sample size: 8.5 x 6 x 2 cm

Origin: Sweetwater Mine, Reynolds County, Missouri, U.S.A.

Ex. Kevin Conroy collection

Sample size: 23 x 12.5 x 9 cm

Galena showing surface alteration to anglesite on fluorite

Origin: Hill-Ledford Mine, Hardin County, Illinois, U.S.A.

Ex. Kevin Conroy collection

Sample size: 8 x 7.5 x 3.5 cm

Galena with tiny yellow dolomite crystals on the surface

Origin: Baia Mare, Maramures, Romania

Ex. Alessandro Genazzani collection

Sample size: 6 x 4 x 3 cm

Photo courtesy of:

John Veevaert, Trinity Mineral Co

Trinityminerals.com

Galena with semseyite and sphalerite

Origin: Herja mine, 6 km ne of Baia Mare, Maramures Co., Romania

Sample size: 4.2 x 4 x 3.8 cm

Galena, twinned, with pyrite and dolomite

Origin: Brushy Creek Mine, Viburnum Trend, Reynolds Co., Missouri, U.S.A.

Sample size: 18 x 14 x 34 mm (top), 2.5 x 1.3 x 5 cm (bottom)

Galena on fluorite

Origin: Blackdene Mine, Ireshopeburn, Weardale, North Pennines, Co. Durham, England, UK

Sample size: 7.5 x 7.3 x 3.8 cm

Galena on sphalerite

Origin: Elmwood Mine, Carthage, Middle Tennessee District, Smith Co., Tennessee, U.S.A.

Sample size: 6.3 x 3.8 x 2.9 cm

Galena with minor sphalerite and chalcopyrite

Origin: Picher Field, Tri-State District, Ottawa Co., Oklahoma/Kansas, U.S.A.

Sample size: 4 x 7.2 x 2.6 cm

Galena with pyrrhotite and sphalerite

Origin: Nikolaevskiy Mine, Dal'negorsk, Primorskiy Kray, Far-Eastern Region, Russia

Sample size: 5 x 4 x 6.2 cm

Origin: Olkusz Mine, Bytom District (Beuthen), Upper Silesia (Slaskie), Poland

Sample size: 8.7 x 3.7 x 5.8 cm

Galena on dolomite

Origin: Tri-State district, Oklahoma/Missouri/Kansas, U.S.A.

Sample size: 11.4 x 9.5 x 1.8 cm

Galena with matrix of black lustrous sphalerite

Galena with minor reddish sphalerite

Origin: Elmwood mine, Carthage, Middle Tennessee District, Smith Co., Tennessee, U.S.A.

Sample size: 10 x 5.5 x 5.3 cm (top), 30 x 25 x 23 mm (bottom)

Galena on chert matrix

Origin: Picher Field, Tri-State District, Ottawa Co., Oklahoma, U.S.A.

Sample size: 3.8 x 3.3 x 2.9 cm (top), 5 x 4 x 7 cm (bottom)

Galena on dolomite with minor chalcopyrite

Origin: Sweetwater (Milliken) Mine, Reynolds co., Missouri, U.S.A.

Sample size: 22 x 14 x 28 mm

Origin: Santa Eulalia District, Mun. de Aquiles Serdán, Chihuahua, Mexico

Sample size: 4.7 x 2.5 x 2.8 cm

Galena on marcasite

Origin: Magmont Mine, Bixby, Viburnum Trend District, Iron Co., Missouri, U.S.A.

Sample size: 5 x 4.5 x 9.7 cm

Galena with minor sphalerite

Origin: 19th of September mine, Madan, Rhodope Mts., Bulgaria

Sample size: 3.5 x 5 x 2.7 cm (top), 5.3 x 2.5 x 3.4 cm (bottom)

Origin: Dal'negorsk, Primorskiy Kray, Far-Eastern Region, Russia

Sample size: 10.3 x 7.5 x 5 cm

Galena on quartz

Origin: Smallcleugh Mine, Nenthead, Alston Moor District, North Pennines, Cumbria (Cumberland), England, UK

Sample size: 6.4 x 5.5 x 4.2 cm

Chalcopyrite on galena on dolomite coated matrix

Origin: West Fork Mine, Viburnum Trend District, Reynolds Co., Missouri, U.S.A.

Sample size: 4.2 x 3.5 x 6 cm

Origin: Turt Mine, Satu Mare, Maramures Co., Romania

Sample size: 7.8 x 4 x 6.2 cm

Galena with chalcopyrite

Origin: Altwochitz, Bohemia, Czech Republic

Ex. William Sanborn collection

Sample size: 5 x 4 x 2.4 cm

Origin: Brushy Creek Mine, Greeley, Viburnum Trend District, Reynolds Co., Missouri, U.S.A.

Sample size: 7.3 x 4.9 x 4.1 cm

Calcite on galena

Galena with calcite

Origin: Sweetwater Mine (Milliken Mine; Ozark Lead Mine), Ellington, Viburnum Trend District, Reynolds Co., Missouri, U.S.A.

Sample size: 5.5 x 2.8 x 2.7 cm (top), 3.8 x 2.3 x 2.3 cm (2nd row), 2.6 x 2.1 x 4.2 cm (3rd row), 10 x 7 x 7.6 cm (4th row), 10.2 x 8 x 10 cm (bottom)