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Mineral Specimens with Galena
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7.2 x 5.9 x 3.4 cm. A very aesthetic Missouri galena specimen - in person, the galenas have a very bright metallic luster - they really shine! The largest crystal is 2.5 cm on the edge. They look so striking perched along the edge of the matrix! Ex. Feist Collection.
3.1 x 2.8 x 1.9 cm. SUPER, gemmy and very glassy, yellow anglesite crystals on galena matrix from Touissit, Morocco. Anglesites of this gemminess, sharpness and color are arguable the world’s finest and this is a highly representative specimen. These are hard to obtain today. Found in the early 1980s.
14.0 x 11.0 x 7.5 cm. A STRIKING CABINET specimen of mirror-bright, stepped-face and spinel-twinned galena crystals aesthetically set on a bed of transparent, colorless quartz crystals from recent finds at the Borieva Mine at Madan, Bulgaria. A classic and very showy sulfide specimen with very few broken quartz crystals. The quartz crystals are preferentially dusted on the backside with tiny chlorite crystals, which gives the crystals the greenish-gray appearance. Accompanied by an old label from the 1990s.
6.9 x 5.4 x 4.2 cm. A big, nickel-bright, dramatic cube of galena from the tri-state district, with a bit of accenting matrix. The faces of this striking cube have interesting shallow offset subfaces, which you can see clearly in the pics. The matrix contact is on the back side, and the specimen has a fine display face. Ex. Feist Collection.
11.0 x 8.0 x 6.5 cm. A CLASSIC, OLD-TIME and AESTHETIC Tri-State CABINET specimen of 3 pristine, lustrous, isolated galena cubes, to 3.7 cm, nicely placed on siliceous limestone matrix. The galena cubes are dusted with marcasite and the gemmy, ruby-jack sphalerite crystals on the matrix are a very nice accent to this fine piece. Ex. George Feist Collection.
2.8 x 2.7 x 2.5 cm. A sharp, lustrous, complete all-around galena crystal from a RARE Missouri locality - Bellville in Marion County. This showy, OLD-TIME specimen has only a small point of attachment at the base. The piece probably dates from the mid 1800’s. Ex. John Legro Collection, a prominent late 19th century East Coast collector and Ed David Collection.
14.5 x 1.4 x 3.8 cm. A lone, large (4-cm) galena cube is perched dramatically at the edge of a matrix of sheety marcasite with small calcites. The galena has pretty stepped sub-faces on its main faces, and a fine nickel luster. It’s isolation on the matrix makes this a really desirable piece.
8.4 x 6.5 x 4.4 cm. From the NEW finds at this classic old mine - a BIG, RICH mound of piled-up transparent, light green crystals of fluorite, accented with a bit of calcite - on a sparing amount of shiny-metallic galena. The way the fluorites are accented by the modest associations of calcite and fluorite make this a very aesthetic example of the specimens that came out of this recent find.
2.4 x 1.2 x 1.1 cm. PRISTINE and GEMMY rhodonite crystals are probably THE most desirable species from the famed Broken Hill deposit of Australia. This dark cherry-red, tabular beauty is beautifully perched on a fragment of galena. Knowing the specific Broken Hill mine is not that common, so there is an added bonus. EXCELLENT material from the Ernie Schlichter Collection.
7.0 x 6.0 x 4.2 cm. A rich and showy gold ore specimen from Ouray, Colorado. Bright, microcrystalline gold is set on gray and milky quartz. The gold and quartz are sandwiched between two veins of splendent galena, making an excellent piece. Ex. George Elling Collection.
2.7 x 2.1 x 1.9 cm. If you have been lucky enough to be a "friend of Ray" who has mined at the Blanchard, you will know that these are the true rare prizes people hope to find there, but rarely do (the fluorites are much better known, of course). Crystallized linarites are rare from anywhere. This one, as is often the case, features the intense blue acicular crystals on a euhedral galena crystal (actually, on a layer of cerussite that formed on the surface of the galena). Nicely framed by quartz crystals.
5.4 x 4.6 x 3.6 cm. A wonderfully formed skeletal crystal of galena with a 2.5-cm calcite crystal sitting right on top! It has a wonderful display face, as both the stepped faces of the galena and the calcite are shown off. Ex. Ed David Collection.
5.2 x 3.7 x 3.5 cm. A HUGE, gemmy and glassy, dark cherry-red spessartine garnet crystal on massive galena and spessartine matrix. The sharp, large crystal is 3.1 cm across and is nicely complimented by a 1.6 cm spessartine below it. Ex George Elling Collection.
8.9 x 5.2 x 4.2 cm. On a matrix of sphalerite and sulfides is a beautiful profusion of very slender, gemmy and elegant quartz crystals, shooting out in all directions. They wrap 3-dimensionally around the specimen. An exquisite piece from Eastern Europe!
18.9 x 14.5 x 4.3 cm. What you see here on this old-timer from the Mex-Tex, out of an old collection, is a very large cube (3.5 cm across) of galena with a coating of the lead oxide plattnerite on it. A smaller, similar cube is over towards the edge of the specimen. This is not common; it is a lot more typical to see a druse of cerussite (another lead mineral) than it is plattnerite, from this area. You can see traces of a copper mineral, likely brochantite or perhaps malachite, on and near the smaller cube (perhaps an alteration in progress). The quartz matrix makes an attractive backdrop to this significant New Mexico Galena crystal!
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