Galena

  
Galena on quartz
Origin: Nikolai Mine, Dalnegorsk, Russia
Sample size: 6.5 x 4 x 2.5 cm
 
  
Twinned galena with mionr pyrite
  
Origin: Mogul Mine, Silvermines District, County Tipperary, Ireland
Ex. Richard Hauck collection
Sample size: 4.3 x 3.8 x 2.8 cm (top/2nd row), 5.4 x 3.2 x 2.5 cm (bottom)
 
  
Origin: Clausthal, Harz Mountains, Lower Saxony, Germany
Ex. Richard Hauck collection
Sample size: 7.0 x 4.5 x 3.4 cm
 

Photo courtesy of: 

Rob Lavinsky

The Arkenstone

 

  
Galena on quartz
Origin: Madan district, southern Rhodope Mountains, Plovdiv region, Bulgaria
Sample size: 13 x 10 x 3.5 cm
 
Galena crystals covered with small ruby red sphalerite crystals
Origin: Tri-State district, U.S.A.
Sample size: 8 cm in height
 
Origin: Joplin, Missouri, U.S.A.
Sample size: about 16 cm wide chert matrix
 
  
 
  
Galena with chalcopyrite (left), galena on marcasite (right)
Origin: Buick mine, Iron Co., Missouri, U.S.A.
Sample size: 17.5 cm tall "stalactite" (top left), 9.5 cm wide (top right), 10 cm in width (bottom left), 12.5 cm in height (bottom right)
 
Galena with calcite
Origin: Milliken (Sweetwater) mine, Reynolds Co., Missouri, U.S.A.
Sample size: 11.5 cm wide
 

Photo courtesy of: 

Dan Weinrich

Dealer in fine mineral specimens

 

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