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Mineral Specimens with Galena
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Look how these crystals of galena are isolated amongst the gemmy quartz crystals! In particular, there is one fine triangular crystal that has wrapped itself around a quartz crystal in back, so that it looks as though the quartz crystal is shooting through the galena. A beautiful combo specimen from Bulgaria. 8.7 x 6.2 x 5.9cm
A SUPERB, old-time, CABINET specimen from the famous Mid-Continent Mine of Kansas of lustrous, fortification galena cubes to 1.8 cm as isolated crystals and clusters on matrix.These were found in teh 1940s-60s and are true classics! Most Tri-State galenas do not have this quality of lustre. Very trivial damage overall, to such a fine piece. Ex Seaman Museum and Marty Lewadny Collections. This is a choice piece from the Lewadny Collection and has many display possibilities. 12.3 x 10.0 x 6.8 cm
This Dalnegorsk piece came with a $400 pricetag from the previous dealer, and you can see why. These beautifully-formed, mirror-metallic galenas (to 2 cm) sit on a matrix of slender quartz crystals, some of which have little balls of green quartz on them from a subsequent solution in the pocket. 11.4 x 9.5 x 4.6cm
Another fine old galena from the Leithauser Collection. This one features HIGHLY modified crystals of galena, to 2.5 cm, sitting well up in high relief on a matrix accented with golden pyrite. An old specimen. 8.4 x 5.6 x 5.5cm
A SUPERB and AESTHETIC specimen of gray, metallic-bright galena crystals resting in a house-like box-work of pastel-pink manganoan calcite after a calcite cast. This is a UNIQUE and BEAUTIFUL specimen from Naica. Ex Richard Hauck Collection. 5.4 x 5.2 x 3.7 cm
From the Hauck Collection, this large old Kansas galena specimen is really just spectacular in person. With their flat , modified, terminations, the modified octahedrons are intergrown and piled atop one another in a beautifully architectural arrangement. The piece is LARGE if you measure it out, and weighs a few pounds. THis is a CLASSIC old tri-state piece from mining in the 1940s and 1950s to the early 1960s perhaps. The specimen is anchored by a central, very large crystal. Wonderful gunmetal luster. 9.7 x 8.2 x 6.2cm
A diamond-shaped pyrrhotite crystal sticks edge-wise out of a matrix of smaller pyrrhotites, galena crystals and coated quartz crystals. The pyrrhotite measures 3 cm, and is bright and brassy. Its form is quite unusual - it IS hexagonal, but four of the sides are very long, while the other two are extremely short. 8.9 x 5.4 x 4.1cm
A very fine Tsumeb galena, not easy to find at all, with chunky, sharp crystals to 2.5 cm on a thin plate of massive galena. 4.5 x 4.5 x 2.5cm
A starkly isolated, flat, complete spinel-twinned galena crystal, standing up off a cluster of shiny sphalerites. Buried amongst the sphalerites are some galena crystals of an entirely different (more traditional) form! It is so curious how this can happen . . .the conditions that cause the galenas to form in two entirely different ways, right on the same specimen! 5.3 x 4.4 x 4.1cm
This LARGE and very impressive galena specimen still has the label from a previous dealer for $695, and you can see why. All along one edge are these big, super-sharp and beautifully formed galena crystal (to 3 cm), with a fine metallic luster. They are attractively set off by a field of quartz crystals that were selectively coated (on one side, that is) by a later generation of creamy microcrystals. You can display this piece as shown, or with the galena crystals in front and the field of quartz crystals in back, with their clear sides facing you and the microcrystals outlining them. Either way, a remarkable Eastern European combo specimen! 15.9 x 12.1 x 7.0cm
There are incredibly ornate modifications on the faces of these shiny galena crystals (to over 2 cm) on this old Eastern European specimen. When you look at it very closely, you see that it is in fact intense hoppering on a micro-level causing this effect! Came with an old label . . 6.4 x 6.4 x 5.1cm
An AESTHETIC and SUPERB, old-time Heights Mine plate of two, water-clear, interpenetrating, green fluorite crystal clusters to 1.4 cm jauntily flanking a euhedral, 2.5 cm galena crystal. The gossan matrix is festooned with a multitude of smaller fluorite crystals. The right fluorite cluster has a nearly invisible corner bruise. OUTSTANDING purple fluorescence. 9.7 x 7.6 x 4.0 cm
This is another fine, old time, specimen. The piece is studded with barrel-shaped crystals of pyromorphite which have been totally replaced by gray galena - an old 1800-s German classic occurrence! The largest crystal measures 2.5 cm across which is quite remarkable in size. The sharpness of the crystals, unmarred by the typical fuzzy edges you often see in these replacements, is also very fine. It looks like a later generation of pyromorphite was trying to coat the old crystals. Collectors of German pyros treasure this type of pseudomorph and this is an unusually fine, display-quality specimen. BETTER IN PERSON! 5.3 x 4.9 x 4.5 cm
This specimen has unique, beautiful aesthetics. Amethyst is VERy rare from Naica. Yet, here we have beautiful sprays erupting from a pristine stalactite of galena, complete all around. It is a colorful specimen of unique aesthetics for this classic old locality! The piece is complete all around and 3-dimensional! 9 x 5.2 x 3.3 cm
A showy CABINET specimen of lustrous, cyclically-twinned cerussite crystals richly covering galena-rich matrix from Tsumeb. This is a highly representative piece from Tsuemb and the scattered damage is certainly not detracting. 10.3 x 5.4 x 4.8 cm
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