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Mineral Specimens with Galena
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8.0 x 6.5 x 3.3 cm. A rich, lustrous specimen of sharp galena crystals accented by siderite and sparkling calcite, from this classic locality.
An INCREDIBLY lustrous and pristine elongated galena cube that resembles the shape of the State of Alabama - hence the "Alabama Galena" name. The only attachment is at the base of this Viburnum Trend galena. Ex Gene Meieran Collection. 5.9 x 3.4 x 2.4 cm
You have to be a pretty darned good galena to get into the Leithauser Collection, and this is absolutely superb in every way. With the exception of one little corner contact, the galena cube is complete, undamaged, sharp and SUPER-lustrous on all sides - essentially a floater. Accenting it all around are tufts of dolomite peppered with bright little pyrite crystals. Yes, galenas are common, but those that deserve a place in a really fine collection are not. This is an old piece from the Tri-State district circa 1930s-50s, not to be confused with contemporary material from the New Lead Belt which would not be on the same dolomite crystallized matrix as you see here 6 x 6 x 5.5 cm
A superb, highly lustrous complete floater galena cube with a modified edge and an aesthetically attached smaller galena cube from the famous Sweetwater Mine of Missouri. Trivial, trivial damage to the main galena cube below the secondary galena cube and totally out of sight. Multiple views are given of this fine specimen. 4.6 x 4.3 x 3.8 cm
4.7 x 4.5 x 3.2 cm. An unusual floater crystal of old tri-state galena with strange natural etching on both sides, giving it a spongy appearance. This unusual galena came out of the noted Midwest George Feist Collection.
5.5 x 4.0 x 2.2 cm. A classic combination specimen from the Nikolaevskiy Mine at Dal’negorsk of a sharp, lustrous, 1.5 cm, cuboctahedral galena crystal aesthetically perched atop a jumbled field of radiating quartz crystals coated/included with siderite. Tiny quartz scepters are noted at the tip of almost every quartz crystal. Ex. Ryan Bowling Collection.
8.1 x 6.7 x 3.2 cm. The whole mineralogical environment is here...from the primary galena on the left, to its secondary oxidation products: a pocket of pyromorphite and cerussite in the middle where phosphate must have been present; and stranger and more rare chemistry occurring in the next oxidation layer over to the right, with flat-laying leadhillite (and probably susannite as well) having formed from some of the minerals present in the galena ore on that side.
7.7 x 7.0 x 4.0 cm. An interesting combination specimen featuring flattened, disc-like galena crystals stacked upon matrix, and surrounded by a halo of translucent disc-shaped calcites.
6.3 x 5.7 x 1.7 cm. Sharp crystals to 1.25 cm of classic Neudorf, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany galena are emplaced on beautiful siderite, sparkling quartz, and very 3-dimensional. The siderite is translucent and sharp.
5.2 x 3.9 x 2.4 cm. A razor-sharp, isolated galena crystal of classic Neudorf form, 1.3 cm across, sitting on brilliantly lustrous golden siderite.
4.2 x 2.3 x 2.2 cm. A 3-dimensional silver-species "disco ball," 1.3 cm across, of proustite surmounts a galena matrix.
6.8 x 4.8 x 4.5 cm. Another beautiful old 1800s-era combination piece, from Neudorf. This specimen has one with galena to 1.5 cm on matrix with brilliantly sparkling quartz and siderite.
6.8 x 5.2 x 4.0 cm. A cluster of intergrown, shiny-metallic crystals of galena to 2 cm along the edge, accented by transparent quartz crystals.
8.4 x 6.1 x 5.6 cm. A strange, fine, complete all-around, pristine, "hollow", box-work galena cube from the famous Baxter Springs area of the Kansas portion of the Tri-State District. It looks, as if another cube was dissolved away or this cube was partially dissolved away on the front of the crystal. Ex. Gerald Herfurth and Ed David Collections.
6.4 x 3.5 x 3.2 cm. A superb Missouri galena specimen, in that you have these two perfect crystals isolated on matrix, rather than a clunky mass of crystals. The larger crystal is 2.5 cm, and both crystals have pretty, natural corner bevels and a silky, gunmetal luster.
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![Galena from Baxter Springs, Picher Field, Tri-State District, Cherokee Co., Kansas, USA [db_pics/mdpics/MD-193809a.jpg]](db_pics/mdpics/MD-193809a.jpg)
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