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Mineral Specimens with Galena
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A large, showy, super-sharp specimen of Eastern European galena. The crystals show sharp, textbook form, and are decorated with golden pyrite and quartz crystals in-between. The galenas measure to 3 cm across. 12.7 x 8.1 x 4.8cm
Another fine Eastern Euro specimen! This one combines sharp, textbook galena crystals with a fine gunmetal luster (to 1.5 cm) with IRRIDESCENT gold and purple chalcopyrites, and accenting golden, sparkly pyrite and quartz crystals. A real show of metallic shine and colorful sparkle! 7.4 x 6.4 x 4.1cm
A VERY LARGE, very showy and beautiful Bulgarian combo specimen - still with its $550 label from the previous dealer. It has creamy starbursts of calcite, isolated on a sparkly quartz matrix, with a cluster of SUPERB, mirror-metalllic galenas, stacked architecturally, to 1 cm across the edge. Note that this piece could be trimmed if you wish into a spectacular small cab specimen - with the calcite starburst, quartz and galenas grouped perfectly in one area. It is best displayed the bottom-up as shown for a collector, though to photograph it , its better shot this way because of shadowing and the 3-dimensioanl form of it 20.2 x 14.2 x 6.8cm
A CLASSIC, OLD-TIMER from Bad Ems, Germany of lustrous, brown pyromorphite prisms to 1.7 cm on nicely contrasting massive galena and vein quartz. There are some broken pyromorphite prisms, but many are also in good shape and so this is a highly representative piece from this famous locale. The vein quartz with the massive galena is not that common in Bad Ems specimens. Ex Richard Hauck Collection. 6.8 x 5.2 x 5.1 cm
Lustrous quartz crystals wrap around the sides of a euhedral galena - very pretty, an old Missouri piece. 8.4 x 5.8 x 4.1cm
Just a GREAT old Sweetwater galena - in that the mirror-metallic crystals are perched right at the top of a matrix of massive galena which forms a natural "base." Old Gary Hansen dealer stock, not seen on the market since he retired in 1984. modern materal from thesame mine is generally not of this quality. 5.3 x 4.1 x 2.8cm
You just could not ask for better luster, sharpness, or gorgeous sculptural form than you see in this galena specimen! The crystals measure to about 3 cm across. They are just mirror-bright. A very uncommon specimen of a common mineral! Old Gary Hansen dealer stock, not seen on the market since he retired in 1984. modern materal from thesame mine is generally not of this quality. 8.7 x 7.8 x 5.7cm
This Illinois combo piece is TRULY dramatic, with its sharp, silvery 3-cm crystal of galena (with textbook form) contrasting beautifully with deep purple cubes of fluorite (to 1.5 cm). The galena is complete all around, 360. This is a very rare combo for the region, and a particularly aesthetic piece, from a long-closed mine 7.7 x 4.2 x 2.5 cm
A semi-circle of hoppered, euhedral and IRRIDESCENT galena crystals, on a matrix of quartz. 6.1 x 5.5 x 2.9cm
An OLD Missouri galena out of the Hauck Collection - featuring a super-sharp, isolated octahedron (2 cm) perched at the edge of the matrix. 5.7 x 3.7 x 2.2cm
This remarkable oldtimer features GEMMY purple cubes of the HIGHEST glassy lustre and best color. They are just gorgeous, and pics cannot convey it, given the size of the plate. The largest fluorite , an interpenetration twin, is 2 cm across. The display face is completely covered with these gorgeous crystals, and also a few galenas scattered about. This is a true classic, from the locality which provided the specimens from which the very word FLUORESCENCE was coined in the early days of mineralogy. One seldom sees such pristine, large plates today. It is, of course, HIGHLY fluorescent a neon purple color under UV light. 18.5 x 16 x 3.6 cm
One of the most fervently treasured of all German classics are these metallic, carved-looking galenas from the Harz, circa the mid-1800's. The best of them have contrasting association with siderite. This one, as well, has calcite for further accent - I have never seen before! It is a very attractive specimen, and has excellent quality 2 cm crystals on the front display, balanced above the contrasting carbonates. It is contacted on the sides and back, but the display face is so good. I have seen very few for sale in recent years, and they tend to be extremely expensive - I saw dribs and drabs of half the quality for twice the price in Munich on the European market where they are so highly valued, in fact. 7 x 5.3 x 3 cm
Very unusual thin, platy spinel-twins of galena, with very high metallic luster, stand on edge all over the quartz crystal-covered matrix of this very large and dramatic specimen! The galenas are quite beautiful, very angular and geometrix. There are at least a couple dozen here, scattered liberally throughout the bed of quartz. This from a previous (and not particularly expensive) dealer. 18 x 13 x 7 cm
A sensational old Missouri combo specimen from collection of German collector WH Leithauser, with super-sharp, hoppered crystals of galena to 1.5 cm on edge on a matrix of pyrite. Much FLASHIER in person! 4.7 x 4.2 x 3.5cm
A VERY LARGE and RICH old Weardale piece, with dozens of cubes of gemmy purple fluorite interspersed with platy calcites. Under fluorescent light, the calcites glow pink and of course the fluorites are an intense bright purple (this is after all the locality which lent its fluorites to discovery of the phenomenon of fluorescence!). The fluorite crystals measure to 0.7 cm on edge. 18 x 11.2 x 7.4 cm
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