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Mineral Specimens with Galena
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A CLASSIC, OLD-TIME and excellent specimen from the famous Monteponi Mine of Sardinia of a 3.8 cm vug filled with glassy, colorless to gray anglesite crystals to 1.4 cm in a massive galena matrix. The anglesite crystals are pristine in this showy piece. 8.4 x 5.6 x 5.2 cm
A LARGE and very impressive Eastern European galena specimen, MUCH more impressive in person, in that you have a compound cluster of galena with staggere, stepped growth all along the sides, so that it just shimmers. But more than that, the galena cluster is nestled in a bed of small, translucent poker-chip calcites that wrap around its edges, which have grown atop silky quartz crystals -making this piece truly exceptional. 12.4 x 8.4 x 6.7cm
A large, beautiful cluster of quartz crystals covered with little platy, translucent calcites - and, nestled amongst them, a super-sharp, 2.5-cm tetradecahedral (14-sides) crystal of galena, with a fine metallic shine. 15.0 x 10.4 x 7.1 cm
A fantastic galena with complex, architectural stepped form, a floater with no contacts - with some little cubes of light purple fluorite on it adding to the attraction. 5.6 x 5.2 x 4.8 cm
This Photo was Mindat.org Photo of the Day - 28th Jul 2006
A flashy Eastern European combo specimen, with sharp, silver-metallic crystals of galena on a matrix covered with bright golden pyrite and quartz crystals. 6.4 x 5.6 x 5.3 cm
A VERY SHOWY specimen of mirror-bright, battleship-gray, stepped to "melted" galena with nicely contrasting massive chalcopyrite from Madan, Bulgaria. This is a excellent piece, even with a couple of contacts. 6.5 x 6.5 x 5.2 cm
A lustrous, sharp, partially gemmy, coffee-brown rhodonite crystal attached to galena from the famous Broken Hill Mine of Austrialia. Classic, old material. Ex Marty Lewadny Collection. 4.2 x 3.8 x 2.2 cm
A 2.3 x 0.6 x 0.5 cm crystal of GEM rhodonite, perched in contrasting galena matrix! GEMMY rhodonite crystals, of this magnitude, are SO rare! I am told this came out in the 1940s. The crystal is complete, and fully terminated (though as is typical, the termination is a bit rounded by nature). I have seen in 2 decades only 3 specimens of this calibre for sale. It is not about size, but about the beauty and quality of this gem crystal....this is a RARE treasure! I was shocked when i saw it available. 4.4 x 2.4 x 2.4 cm
Rhodonite associated with sharp black crystals of bannisterite and galena. The major crystal here is 2 cm, and doubly-terminated. 3.4 x 2.7 x 2.3 cm
I cannot recall ever seeing crystals of these two minerals growing together in this way, not just from Mexico, but from anywhere! I have looked long and hard through a loupe at this specimen. It almost looks as though one of the minerals has pseudomorphed crystals of the other, but apparently that is not the case. What has happened is that the crystals of bright silver galena and brassy pyrrhotites grew at the same time, in equal balance, with the hexagonal pyrrhotites and cubic galenas in places interrupting or growing around one another. Here and there, it looks almost as though there are crystals that are partly galena and partly pyrrhotite, and only close inspection shows this not to be true. This is one of those rare and incredibly interesting specimens that you can stare at for a very long time without growing bored . . . 4.0 x 3.2 x 2.5 cm
It is hard to imagine a more aesthetic and superb old German galena than this. Gorgeous architectural structure, silky luster, the works. Wow! 3.4 x 2.9 x 2.6 cm
One of two wonderful old German galenas in this update, of very different sizes and styles, from different localities. This one has a rich cluster of intergrown crystals, with wonderful sharpness and luster, on a nicely contrasting white matrix. Ex. Scalisi Collection 7.2 x 6.2 x 3.1 cm
Sphalerites and chalcopyrites in combination are a classic from the old Creede locality, but during exploration of the 5-level in the old Commodore mine in 2002/2003, a small find was made of these crystals, along with minor galenas, in association with small, pretty amethyst crystals! This is the largest of four specimens from this exciting Colorado find which we saw with the man who collected them, in Tucson! (Report on the find is in the current issue of the Mineralogical Record) 7.6 x 7.4 x 6.7 cm
Thousands of good specimens from this deposit have been sold over the years, but few are as good as this combo specimen, surely from the heyday of the 1970s to early 1980s. Jackstraw clusters of lustrous, colorless, transparent, quartz crystals, to 2 cm in length act as a platform for two large, composite, lustrous, black crystals of sphalerite, to 3.2 cm across. Perched between the sphalerites are mesmerizing, hoppered crystals of galena, to 2.50 cm across. To boot, there are even a couple of mirror bright, striated cubes of pyrite, to 1.0 cm across. In the large number of quartz crystals are only a few with broken tips, and they melt into insignificance. This is a large and dramatic piece from a classic locality, that is now for all intents and purposes defunc tin terms of such specimens. 10.1 x 8.1 x 4.1 cm
A matrix of dolomite is the host of an aesthetic group of medium-gray, lustrous, modified crystals of galena, to 2.5 cm across. I particularly like the way this specimen sits up naturally. The sharp modified octos are really aesthetic, more so in person when you can see the 3-dimensionality!. 14.2 x 6.5 x 3.6 cm
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