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Galena with Pyrite$200.00
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The lead sulphide, Galena, is one of those abundant species which can so readily be overlooked by collectors, but when crystals like this example are seen, it makes you want to collect nothing else! This specimen is from West Fork mine at Centerville in Reynolds County, Missouri, USA. It’s an amazing Galena, composed of one, ex-matrix crystal; a crystal elongated from the cube, forming a cuboid with corners modified to the octahedron. The rectangular display face of the crystal has a raised rim around all edges and within this, a flat, depressed plateaued centre is richly pervaded with perfectly formed, wedge and chisel-shaped Pyrite crystals of metallic dull gold. Such Pyrite crystals also line vugs in the Galena crystals’ outer faces, the vugs created by macro-sized dislocations in the crystal structure. An aesthetic, fascinating and fantastic miniature Galena and Pyrite.
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SizeMiniature
Dimensions4.9 x 3.6 x 3.0 cm
Locality
SKUCC32368
Listed on12/02/2024
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