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Mineral Specimens with Galena
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8.3 x 6.8 x 4.7 cm. Really odd, disc-shaped galena crystals to 1 inch surmount a nice knoll of bright pyrite, on this old classic. It is a fine specimen, complete-all-around, and actually quite attractive in person. This is old material from the 1940s-1960s, I am told.
3.8 x 2.9 x 1.3 cm. A sharp 9mm cube, hoppered throughout, perched on chalcopyrite. As my friend John Veevaert found out and reported in his show report elsewhere, "it was mentioned to me that these were actually found about 20 years ago and ignored until someone in Bulgaria figured out how to remove the encasing clay without damaging the delicate features of these remarkable specimens. They are just absolutely incredible and easily the most impressive new thing here at the show."
3.8 x 3.7 x 2.3 cm. An exquisite cluster of all-hoppered galenas to 1.3cm, which reminds me of old Anasazi cliff-cities I have seen in photos. As my friend John Veevaert found out and reported in his show report elsewhere, "it was mentioned to me that these were actually found about 20 years ago and ignored until someone in Bulgaria figured out how to remove the encasing clay without damaging the delicate features of these remarkable specimens."
5.0 x 4.3 x 3.1 cm. An exquisite cluster of all-hoppered galenas to 1.2cm, which reminds me of old Anasazi cliff-cities I have seen in photos.
4.0 x 3.7 x 3.7 cm. 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.
4.3 x 3.9 x 3.5 cm. This is an intergrown cluster, of splendent, gray galena, in cubes to 2.0 cm across. Unusual from Elmwood and very stunning.
4.8 x 4.2 x 3.6 cm. 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.
6.9 x 6.0 x 4.4 cm. 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.
3.2 x 2.3 x 2 cm. An interesting, very metallic, sharp and complex galena crystal. Ex. Sam Nasser Collection.
4.3 x 3.4 x 3.3 cm. Fabulous mirror-luster Galenas with varying complex habits sitting on matrix. Ex. Wendell E. Wilson Collection.
4.8 x 4.2 x 3.5 cm. A beautiful, soft green color, gem quality, sharp, lustrous, intergrown cubic crystal group (in the form of an octahedron) of fluorite sitting atop lustrous, contrasting metallic grey cuboctahedral galena crystals on matrix. This piece is not from a recent find at the mine, but actually about 30 years ago (late 1970s). The fluorite crystal group measures 1.4 cm across, and for the quality, association, and overall aesthetics, it is a fine little miniature from this incredible mine. Ex. Richard Kosnar Collection.
7.0 x 4.8 x 4.2 cm. An old-time, classic, combination Tri-State specimen from the much less well-known Blue Goose Mine of Baxter Springs, Kansas. A 3.9 x 3.4 x 3.3 cm, splendent, metallic-gray galena cube with a very interesting corner dimple is set atop highly lustrous, dark reddish-brown, ruby-jack sphalerite. Ex. Miller and George Feist Collections. Feist #1635.
MD-262878 - Cerussite, Rosasite, Azurite, Smithsonite, Mimetite, Beudantite, Baryte, Galena - - Archived
Sherman Mine (Sherman tunnel; Leadville Corporation Mine; Day Mines; Hilltop Mine), Upper Iowa Gulch, Leadville District, Lake Co., Colorado, USA
large cabinet, 15.1 x 10.6 x 9.8 cm.
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15.1 x 10.6 x 9.8 cm. Without a doubt, this is one of the most impressive association specimens I have seen not only from Leadville, but virtually any Colorado locality. Leadville is well known for its Silver deposits, but the secondary ore minerals from the Sherman mine are treasured by Colorado collectors. This piece features more associated species on the same specimen than I have seen from the Sherman mine. It features tiny white "snowflakes" of Cerussite lightly dusted with Rosasite on Azurite along with crystals of Smithsonite and Mimetite, plus the very rarely seen arsenate, Beudantite on a matrix of golden Baryte crystals, Galena and Quartz. I spent nearly 30 minutes with this piece under the microscope. It's an incredibly fun specimen to view under high magnification, and an amazing association specimen from one of the most storied mining districts in Colorado. Colorful secondary ore specimens are not the first thing that comes to mind when one thinks of Colorado, and this piece is about as rich as it gets when it comes to species. This specimen was collected in 1980, and stands as one of the most unique pieces I have ever seen from Leadville. From C-22 Area. Ex. Richard Kosnar Collection.
A large and simply spectacular calcite specimen! The crystals have piled up like stacks of chips into “fingers” or towers, some of them looking as though they are getting ready to topple in one direction or another. The specimen features fine luster and a pretty orange/cream color, and is in pristine condition. The variety of calcites coming out of Eastern Europe has just been astounding, and you see one after another of a type you haven’t seen before. This is a big, showy and fascinating mineral specimen! 18 x 12 x 7.5 cm
Ball shaped rhodo clusters of salmon-pink, with associated quartz crystals and galena. 5.8 x 5.5 x 2.3 cm
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