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6.3 x 3.3 x 1.8 cm. This superb galena crystal is so shiny-metallic that it looks almost like a man-made machine part or something. It stands strikingly off a matrix shard. It is complete all around and undamaged, with natural bevels on its corners. There is a smaller crystal attached to the matrix below. The larger measures just over 2 cm. Ex. Feist Collection.
9.3 x 5.8 x 3.7 cm. This is from older finds at Naica, not the more recent ones of fluorite with sphalerite and galena; you can tell by the different crystal form here, which includes really pretty stepped growth. The crystals have intense shiny-metallic luster. On one side of the specimen is a cluster of colorless fluorites and small scalenohedrons of calcite. Ex. Consie Prince Collection.
An attractive cluster with loose silver wires wrapped around each other and a mass of massive galena. Quite rare and elegant for the locality! 2 x 1.5 x 1.5 cm
An unusually large and sharp pseudo for the location, where such replacements tend to be rather ugly , for lack of a better word. Not only is the crystal somewhat attractive, but it is on attractive matrix besides! The galena measures about 4 x 4 x 3 cm and is crystallized with octahedral modifications on each corner. It is partially replaced by the anglesite (some galena is obvious internally from a cleave on the lower-bottom face, though all other sides are undamaged. The specimen is invisibly repaired about the midppoint of the matrix, with the galena-bearing half joined back to the left half. I did not even notice this when I bought it from an old collection at the Detroit show, to tell you how little this bothers me in terms of aesthetics. fOR DISPLAY PURPOSES AND JUST ITS INTEREST VALUE, THIS IS DARNED GOOD! 7 x 5 x 3.5 cm
5.4 x 4.7 x 3.4 cm. A fine specimen of a vertical, splendent cluster of sharp, parallel-growth, spinel-twinned galena crystals attached to a mounded sulfide matrix covered with needle quartz crystals. The smaller, spinel-twin on the left side of the piece is a very nice accent. The large spinel-twins are complete all-around and very nearly pristine.
6.6 x 5.2 x 3.2 cm. A superb cluster of at least eight well-defined Pyrrhotite crystals resting on a matrix of excellent Sphalerite crystals and crystalline-to-massive Galena. The largest Pyrrhotite is 2.8 cm across with excellent luster and striations. The habit is fantastic, and to have the main Pyrrhotite sitting up on matrix in such an unusually isolated manner creates incredible aesthetics for this piece.
A VERY NICE combo of the classic species from Neudorf, though they only rarely occur together [Note: at Neudorf, siderite is a very common associate of galena - pH] and now, up to hundreds of years after being mined, specimens are so scarce as to be almost unavailable. What a balanced piece?! Ex. Seaman Museum with label 4.6 x 4.0 x 1.5 cm
4.1 x 2.2 x 1.9 cm. A validated specimen of this very rare silver-lead-arsenic sulfide species from Lengenbach. Mark exchanged it from Dr. Jaroslav Hyrsl who in turn obtained it in trade from the Natural History Museum in Bern, Switzerland, in about 1995. Although microcrystalline, the specimen has some display value - more than most such. The two arrows point to the marrite microcrystals (one or two at each arrow). The rest is galena. The marrite is dull on the surface, as opposed to the galena, which is bright. From the type locality. Ex. Dr. Mark Feinglos Collection.
4.4 x 4.1 x 3.8 cm. A large, gleaming, shiny-metallic cube of galena from Missouri, with pretty stepping on its faces. The contact is underneath, so it presents a fine display side. Note that it is a compound crystal, adding interest as you can see the slightly offset secondary crystal form in the photo.
5.1 x 3.2 x 2.8 cm. A striking old Joplin combination specimen, featuring a translucent calcite twin that has wrapped itself around a cube of galena.
10.5 x 6.5 x 4.0 cm. An excellent Sweetwater calcite specimen from the Feist Collection. This superb crystal has beautiful "cut glass" modifications all over its highly lustrous faces. It shows unusual transparency for a Sweetwater calcite, and wonderful bright honey-golden color. At the base of the crystal are some smaller calcites, some galena crystals, and a bit of chalcopyrite.
A VERY SIGNIFICANT silver for the locality, with great aesthetics as well! The entire top half of the specimen is a solid, intricate mass of silver wires and curlicues! From the collection of former mineral dealer Tony Fraser, who in the mid-90's gave up much of his mineral collection and became a gold nugget dealer down under. 5.5 x 5.5 x 4 cm
2.9 x 2.3 x 1.3 cm. A fascinating, rare, old-time specimen from the W.S Vaux and Philadelphia Academy of Sciences Collections. Three fossilized Paleozoic mollusks are superbly preserved on (and being galena-ized over time) a galena cube and massive galena on this historic Wisconsin specimen, from the old lead mines of Southwestern Wisconsin, near Shullsburg. Lead mines were established in Lafayette County in the 1820s. W.S. Vaux lived from 1811-1882 and this rarity probably dates to the American Civil War era or earlier.
12.9 x 9.4 x 5.4 cm. Complex, frosty crystals of fluorite with water-clear interiors cover a matrix of solid galena, with a layer of bright galena crystals underneath the fluorites. Patches of quartz and calcite crystals add a pretty accent to the fluorites. The fluorites alternate frosty faces with transparent "windows" into the clear interiors. Ex. Consie Prince Collection.
10.0 x 6.8 x 5.1 cm. Splendent, striking, preferentially etched, cuboctahedral galena crystals with associated quartz form this fine cabinet specimen from Dal’negorsk, Russia. The prominent crystals are perched on the top of the piece. The large crystal is 2.5 cm. Some of the galena crystals on the back are even skeletal. There are even a couple of pyrrhotite crystals scattered about. This material came out in the early-mid 1990s.
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