Galena

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A fine, old-time cabinet galena specimen from the Joplin Field of Missouri. This specimen is richly and very attractively covered with striking, lustrous, isolated, cuboctahedral galena crystals to 2.7 cm on chert matrix. The octahedra are superb examples of the "fortification style" or galena epitaxial on galena. The second-generation galena crystals encrust the galena crystals and give these totally incredible patterns, including strongly hoppered and cavernous crystals. All of the many galena crystals are pristine, including all of the large crystals. The back is sprinkled with tiny, gemmy, ruby-jack sphalerite crystals as a bonus.