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Mineral Specimens with Galena
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This specimen hosts a pristine, sharp, 1.8 x 1 x 1 cm cuboctohedron, perched atop matrix. I saw only two examples of hoppered crystals of this form in the entire lot of dozens. It is a bit pricier than a comparably sized cubic crystal, but then also more rare.
A beautiful matrix cluster of crystals to 1.7 cm tall, progressing from simple sharp cubes (now hoppered and hollow) to the 1.7-cm stretched-out cube on the right. VERY dramatic specimen, and pristine; and, lastly, it is 360-complete all around!
Weighing in at several pounds, this hefty galena has somehow survived the usual dinging and damages that heavy galenas from this part of the world tend to accumulate in the mining and travelling to be sold. It is a riveting, metallic sculpture that looks like it was manmade and could go in a museum of modern art showcasing the interaction of planes and symmetries. The white quartz druse is sparkly and snow-white bright in person, overall MUCH MORE intense than the pictures are able to convey. The galenas are brilliantly lustrous, highly 3-dimensional, and we see here at least two distinct crystal habits on one piece. It is complete all around and displays well in any orientation.
Large galena crystals like this one are not all that common from Elmwood. This gray, muted luster, crystal, exhibits several areas of stepped growth. It is also studded with tiny orange sphalerite crystals.
This is an intergrown cluster, of splendent, gray galena, in cubes to 2.0 cm across. Unusual from Elmwood and very stunning!
A druse of calcite and galena forms the matrix for a large, superb, euhedral crystal of galena, 4 cm across. The color of the galena is battleship gray with muted luster. It is very unusual to find the simple cubic habit of galena here, for whatever reasons, and the sheer simplicity of the crystal habit makes it leap out at you, especially for the locality.
This is an aesthetic FLOATER cluster of stacked, modified cubes of galena, up to 2.0 cm across. The battleship gray color and very good luster are supplemented by several, gemmy, golden, calcite crystals, to .7 cm across, on the back side of the specimen. Complete all around!
ex. Ernie Schlichter
I really like the way this specimen sits up unaided and shows off two spinel twinned galena crystals to 3cm each sit on a matrix of smaller untwinned galena crystals, quartz, and sphalerite. The galena displays a mirror bright luster so reflective you can see the photographer's face in the crystals from a foot away! The crystals exhibit a silvery-gray color that is more attractive in person than it seems here, as well.
Water-clear, SHARP cuboctohedral flurites perched one upon the other in a delicately balanced cluster upon a short stack of galena crystals! These fluorites are so clear you can look through to the galena inside or at the back. Also, there is a really neat group of floating pyrite crystals inside the large lower fluorite here, showing what appears to be a cast after an earlier crystal of fluorite or galena where the pyrite specks cumulatively retain the outline of a cubic predecessor. VERY NEAT, though subtle.
A bright, beautiful piece with bright, beautiful pyrite inclusions galore! The crystals are just stunning in their clarity, color,and gemminess. Sadly, the right side of the crystal tower there is contacted in several places where it grew against something else, now gone; and the crystallization has thus been interrupted or left rough at the split. I do not think it is real damage, but the right side of the display face is thus rough to the touch, even though visually it looks pretty good (as you see!). Hence, the low price for probably the bet pyrite inclusions in fluorite in the lot!
Gorgeous, pristine, cluster of large cuboctohedral crystals perched on a galena matrix. They are gemmy and transparent, and complete all around except for a small contact in back where you can see some very pretty pyrite inclusions. Classic Naica crystallization!
A single SHARP, transparent, 3 x 2.8 x 2 cm fluorite crystal sits starkly in the middle of this flashy galena matrix, with a little accent of drusy quartz on the right side. Note it is so clear you can look right through it to the galena underneath! FINE miniature, with stark and classic cuboctohedral crystallography
Seven TRANSPARENT, gemmy, undamaged cuboctohedral crystals to 3 cm in size perch like mountainclimbers upon this mound of crystallized galena (actually a carpet of galena over a mound of underlaying sphalerite). The contrast is striking! The association with galena is CLASSIC for Naica, for old material. For this NEW find, it seems rather unusual as most of the associations are with sphalerite. Also, the frozen waterfall of sparkling crystallized quartz running down the center of the piece provides a nice accent and some sparkle...and is itself unusual in the occurrence. The piece is large...so the pictures really have trouble conveying how impressive this is, and how starkly frog-eyed the fluorites look in person as they leap out at you from the contrasting galena. It is therefore much more 3-dimensional and impressive in person!
Large, GEMMY, transparent, green cuboctohedral crystals to a whopping 4 cm, surmounting a knoll-shaped cluster of smaller crystals, also play host to a brilliantly lustrous 2-cm galena crystal! The galena is nestled in a sphalerite embrace, so you have silver on black on green...VERY bright combo, in person! The piece is entirely 100% translucent and is also a floater with a recrystallized break on the bottom contact, and complete even around the backside.
Over a dozen TRANSPARENT, gemmy, undamaged cuboctohedral crystals to 3 cm in size perch like mountainclimbers upon this mound of crystallized galena. The contrast is striking! The weight is also striking - probably over half a dozen pounds here. The association is CLASSIC for Naica, for old material. For this NEW find, it seems rather unusual as most of the associations are with sphalerite. Also, the rivulets of sparkling crystallized quartz running down the seams of the piece provide a nice accent and some sparkle...and are themselves unusual in the occurrence. The piece is large...so the pictures really have trouble conveying how impressive this is, and how starkly frog-eyed the fluorites look in person as they leap out at you from the contrasting galena. It is therefore much more 3-dimensional and impressive in person! Since its so heavy and so hard to photograph, I am making it $950 instead of $1950 as it probably should be to ensure i sell it and don't have to carry it around here at the office!
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