specimen
Details
ColorsGrey
Origin
Pfannenberger Einigkeit Mine, Salchendorf, Neunkirchen, Siegerland, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
SizeMiniature
Dimensions3.9 x 4.2 x 3.6 cm
Species
Description
A group of bright, metallic silver Galena crystals of cuboctahedral habit, yet tending more towards the octahedron. The crystals, the largest measuring 1.9 x 1.3 x 0.9 cm, sit on a milky-white Quartz veinstone shot through with Galena, Pyrite and Chalcopyrite, with a layer of very lustrous and glassy Quartz beneath the Galena. This miniature is from the Pfannenberger Einigkeit mine at Salchendorf in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.