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4.1 x 3.9 x 2.1 cm. Lustrous, metallic-gray, cuboctahedral and spinel-twinned galena crystals are preferentially coated with brilliant, brass-yellow pyrite on this fine, two-sided specimen from the Black Cloud Mine near Leadville, Colorado. Classic material. Ex. Wes Parker Collection.
5.7 x 4.5 x 2.8 cm. A fine specimen from the much less well-known West Fork Mine of Missouri’s famous Viburnum Trend. The modified, cuboctahedral galena crystals have this incredible coating of supremely iridescent, peacock-blue and magenta. I have seen very few Viburnum Trend galenas with this unreal iridescence. Ex. Wes Parker Collection.
5.6 x 4.5 x 4.5 cm. Two glassy, transparent, interpenetrating, green fluorite cubes to 1.4 cm dominate the crest of this fine mounded specimen covered with smaller fluorite crystals and a few, sharp and rounded, moderate-lustre galena octahedrons from recent finds at the Rogerley Mine. The large galena is 1.2 cm. The two large, water-clear fluorites have super purple, natural fluorescence. A highly representative example of the species and noted locale. Ex. Wes Parker Collection.
5.0 x 3.4 x 2.2 cm. Bright green bayldonite richly invests all sides of the massive galena and quartz matrix on this fine specimen from the Brandy Gill Mine at Caldbeck Fells, England. Specimens from this old-time mine are seldom available. Ex. Tony Ellis and Wes Parker Collections.
12.9 x 12.4 x 5.4 cm. A classic cabinet combination specimen from the Tri-State District of Kansas. Sharp, moderately lustrous, battleship-gray galena cubes to 3.7 cm are scattered on the silicified limestone matrix plate covered with dolomite rhombs. Complimenting the galena cubes are ruby-jack sphalerite crystals to 2.5 cm, an interesting, brecciated matrix fragment and a dusting of sparkly marcasite crystals. Old-time and excellent, large combination material from this renowned locale.
8.4 x 8.2 x 5.4 cm. A fine Elmwood combination specimen. A 2.4 cm, metallic-bright, etched galena cube is beautifully centered in a rosette-like cluster of very highly lustrous ruby-jack sphalerite crystals. Excellent combination material from this famous and now-closed mine.
5.4 x 5.2 x 2.2 cm. A striking, very interesting galena specimen from the Sweetwater Mine of Missouri. This flattened cube is super-splendent, metallic-gray. All faces and edges are very sharp and have stepped-growth. We presume this amazing galena to be a near-pristine floater, due to lack of any bashing and the stepped-growth on all faces. We believe cleavage faces would be much more apparent. Ex. Wes Parker Collection.
8.3 x 5.8 x 4.4 cm. A 1.7 x 1.6 cm, gem-like, water-clear colorless to pastel-green fluorite cube with modified corners crowns the cluster of smaller fluorites atop the mounded matrix of crystallized galena, quartz and other sulfides. This is classic, older material from the mines at Naica, Mexico. Ex. Saller Collection of Germany.
10.9 x 7.2 x 5.0 cm. A very fine, well-crystallized cabinet specimen from Dal’negorsk. The lustrous galena crystals, to 3.5 cm, appear to be naturally etched or have the "melted look". The large galena is hoppered. Richly scattered are sharp, lustrous, blocky, black, twinned sphalerite crystals to 3.1 cm. Nearly complete-all-around, this is exceptionally free of damage. Said to have been mined in September, 2002. Ex. Minette Collection # WW559 with data card.
12.5 x 11.0 x 6.4 cm. A fine, old-time cabinet galena specimen from the Joplin Field of Missouri. This specimen is richly and very attractively covered with striking, lustrous, isolated, cuboctahedral galena crystals to 2.7 cm on chert matrix. The octahedra are superb examples of the "fortification style" or galena epitaxial on galena. The second-generation galena crystals encrust the galena crystals and give these totally incredible patterns, including strongly hoppered and cavernous crystals. All of the many galena crystals are pristine, including all of the large crystals. The back is sprinkled with tiny, gemmy, ruby-jack sphalerite crystals as a bonus.
6.4 x 5.1 x 3.3 cm. This piece has some very attractive pink colored Rhodochrosite "rosettes" which are associated with white prismatic Quartz "sprays" and minor cuboctahedral Galena crystals. The Rhodochrosites are rather lustrous which is not commonly seen from the Sunnyside mine. Ex. Brian Kosnar Collection.
5.5 x 4.7 x 3.4 cm. Sharp, brilliant metallic, spinel-twinned galena crystals to 9 mm are very attractively clustered along the crest of this sculptural specimen from the Naica Mine of Mexico. Lustrous, tiny, dogtooth calcite crystals nicely compliment the galena crystals on the drusy quartz matrix peppered with tiny pyrites. The calcite displays a vivid pink fluorescence. Excellent combination material from this famous locale.
12.0 x 6.5 x 6.0 cm. A superb, old-time, cabinet galena specimen from the Ballard Mine of the Kansas portion of the Tri-State District. Splendent, metallic galena cubes to 4.0 cm are aesthetically clustered on the chert matrix and nicely accented with marcasite cogwheels and some sphalerite crystals. A few of the galena crystal corners have octahedral modifications and there are scattered secondary galena overgrowths or "fortification" patterns that add character. Classic and outstanding material from this historic district from the Ed David Collection. Weighs over 1 kilogram.
11.2 x 8.4 x 3.5 cm. Splendent, battleship gray, flattened, spinel twin, intergrown crystals of galena on matrix, reach 4.0 cm across. These are augmented by a swath of black, splendent sphalerite crystals, to 1.0 cm across. Ex. Dr. Edward David Collection.
5 x 4.7 x 6.2 cm. An outstanding Galena specimen from the Sweetwater Mine, Vibernum Trend, Missouri. This modified 3.9 cm cube has excellent luster and form, and it sits on a matrix of Dolomite and Chalcopyrite.
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share specimen![Galena from Black Cloud Mine (Resurrection Mine 0080650339; Yak Tunnel; Leadville Unit; Irene Shaft), Iowa Gulch, Leadville, Leadville District, Lake Co., Colorado, USA [db_pics/mdpics/MD-253963a.jpg]](db_pics/mdpics/MD-253963a.jpg)
![Galena from Black Cloud Mine (Resurrection Mine 0080650339; Yak Tunnel; Leadville Unit; Irene Shaft), Iowa Gulch, Leadville, Leadville District, Lake Co., Colorado, USA [db_pics/mdpics/MD-253963b.jpg]](db_pics/mdpics/MD-253963b.jpg)
![Galena from West Fork Mine, Centerville, Viburnum Trend District, Reynolds Co., Missouri, USA [db_pics/mdpics/MD-253975a.jpg]](db_pics/mdpics/MD-253975a.jpg)
![Galena from West Fork Mine, Centerville, Viburnum Trend District, Reynolds Co., Missouri, USA [db_pics/mdpics/MD-253975b.jpg]](db_pics/mdpics/MD-253975b.jpg)
![Fluorite, Galena from Rogerley Mine, Frosterley, Weardale, North Pennines, Co. Durham, England, UK [db_pics/mdpics/MD-255015a.jpg]](db_pics/mdpics/MD-255015a.jpg)
![Bayldonite, Galena, Quartz from Brandy Gill Mine, Carrock Fell, Caldbeck Fells, North and Western Region (Cumberland), Cumbria, England, UK [db_pics/mdpics/MD-255021a.jpg]](db_pics/mdpics/MD-255021a.jpg)
![Bayldonite, Galena, Quartz from Brandy Gill Mine, Carrock Fell, Caldbeck Fells, North and Western Region (Cumberland), Cumbria, England, UK [db_pics/mdpics/MD-255021b.jpg]](db_pics/mdpics/MD-255021b.jpg)
![Bayldonite, Galena, Quartz from Brandy Gill Mine, Carrock Fell, Caldbeck Fells, North and Western Region (Cumberland), Cumbria, England, UK [db_pics/mdpics/MD-255021c.jpg]](db_pics/mdpics/MD-255021c.jpg)
![Galena, Sphalerite, Dolomite, Marcasite from Treece, Picher Field, Tri-State District, Cherokee Co., Kansas, USA [db_pics/mdpics/MD-255044a.jpg]](db_pics/mdpics/MD-255044a.jpg)
![Galena, Sphalerite from Elmwood mine, Carthage, Central Tennessee Ba-F-Pb-Zn District, Smith Co., Tennessee, USA [db_pics/mdpics/MD-255056a.jpg]](db_pics/mdpics/MD-255056a.jpg)
![Galena, Sphalerite from Elmwood mine, Carthage, Central Tennessee Ba-F-Pb-Zn District, Smith Co., Tennessee, USA [db_pics/mdpics/MD-255056b.jpg]](db_pics/mdpics/MD-255056b.jpg)
![Galena from Sweetwater Mine (Milliken Mine; Frank R. Milliken; Blair Creek; Ozark Lead Company Mine; Adair Creek; Logan Creek), Ellington, Viburnum Trend District, Reynolds Co., Missouri, USA [db_pics/mdpics/MD-255123a.jpg]](db_pics/mdpics/MD-255123a.jpg)
![Fluorite, Galena from Naica, Mun. de Saucillo, Chihuahua, Mexico [db_pics/mdpics/MD-255150a.jpg]](db_pics/mdpics/MD-255150a.jpg)
![Fluorite, Galena from Naica, Mun. de Saucillo, Chihuahua, Mexico [db_pics/mdpics/MD-255150b.jpg]](db_pics/mdpics/MD-255150b.jpg)
![Sphalerite, Galena from 2nd Sovietskii Mine (2nd Sovietskiy Mine), Dal'negorsk (Dalnegorsk; Tetyukhe; Tjetjuche; Tetjuche), Primorskiy Kray, Far-Eastern Region, Russia [db_pics/mdpics/MD-257240a.jpg]](db_pics/mdpics/MD-257240a.jpg)
![Sphalerite, Galena from 2nd Sovietskii Mine (2nd Sovietskiy Mine), Dal'negorsk (Dalnegorsk; Tetyukhe; Tjetjuche; Tetjuche), Primorskiy Kray, Far-Eastern Region, Russia [db_pics/mdpics/MD-257240b.jpg]](db_pics/mdpics/MD-257240b.jpg)
![Galena from Joplin Field, Tri-State District, Jasper Co., Missouri, USA [db_pics/mdpics/MD-257249a.jpg]](db_pics/mdpics/MD-257249a.jpg)
![Rhodochrosite, Galena, Quartz from Sunnyside Mine (American Tunnel; Mogul Mine; Washington Mine; Belle Creole; Gold Prince; Brenneman Mine; Sunnyside Mine Group), Howardsville, Silverton District, San Juan Co., Colo [db_pics/mdpics/MD-257305a.jpg]](db_pics/mdpics/MD-257305a.jpg)
![Rhodochrosite, Galena, Quartz from Sunnyside Mine (American Tunnel; Mogul Mine; Washington Mine; Belle Creole; Gold Prince; Brenneman Mine; Sunnyside Mine Group), Howardsville, Silverton District, San Juan Co., Colo [db_pics/mdpics/MD-257305b.jpg]](db_pics/mdpics/MD-257305b.jpg)
![Galena, Calcite from Naica Mine, Naica, Mun. de Saucillo, Chihuahua, Mexico [db_pics/mdpics/MD-258309a.jpg]](db_pics/mdpics/MD-258309a.jpg)
![Galena, Calcite from Naica Mine, Naica, Mun. de Saucillo, Chihuahua, Mexico [db_pics/mdpics/MD-258309b.jpg]](db_pics/mdpics/MD-258309b.jpg)
![Galena, Calcite from Naica Mine, Naica, Mun. de Saucillo, Chihuahua, Mexico [db_pics/mdpics/MD-258309c.jpg]](db_pics/mdpics/MD-258309c.jpg)
![Galena, Marcasite from Ballard Mine, Baxter Springs, Picher Field, Tri-State District, Cherokee Co., Kansas, USA [db_pics/mdpics/MD-258316a.jpg]](db_pics/mdpics/MD-258316a.jpg)
![Galena, Sphalerite from 2nd Sovietskii Mine (2nd Sovietskiy Mine), Dal'negorsk (Dalnegorsk; Tetyukhe; Tjetjuche; Tetjuche), Primorskiy Kray, Far-Eastern Region, Russia [db_pics/mdpics/MD-258640a.jpg]](db_pics/mdpics/MD-258640a.jpg)
![Galena, Dolomite, Chalcopyrite from Sweetwater Mine (Milliken Mine; Frank R. Milliken; Blair Creek; Ozark Lead Company Mine; Adair Creek; Logan Creek), Ellington, Viburnum Trend District, Reynolds Co., Missouri, USA [db_pics/mdpics/MD-258641a.jpg]](db_pics/mdpics/MD-258641a.jpg)