Galena (Skeletal) on Chlorite-Included Quartz

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This well-balanced matrix galena specimen is covered by a bed of green, chloritic to colorless, gemmy, lustrous quartz crystals, to .75 cm across. Perched aesthetically on the quartz are three lustrous, skeletal, battleship-gray galena crystals, to 2.5 cm across. They are more elegant than boxy, if that makes sense to say, though they are technically boxwork in form. It appears that the largest crystal was octahedral in form rather than the more ubiquitous cubes. Truly dramatic and unusual! More 3-dimensional in person, too!