Galena Spinel twinned

$2,500.00

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Tucson, Arizona, USA

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This is a remarkable crystallized Galena specimen from what was a renowned locality during the late 1800s - Gonderbach mine, near Arnsberg in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. Flat, 2-dimensional photos really do not do it justice, but the video really captures the phenomenal 'flattened' form of these Galena crystals. Almost the entire crystal aggregate is made up of flattened spinel-twinned cubo-octahedral Galena crystals developed in parallel to each other. The largest lower crystal is just shy of 4 cm across and the thin, freestanding upper crystal reaches 3 cm wide. Considering its age and the delicate protrusion of the uppermost crystal this miniature specimen is in amazing condition and has quality aesthetics to go with it too. Very few of these famous European classics exist in private hands and even less come up for sale. It is from the superb worldwide systematic and localized German collection assembled by the brothers Martin and Michael Günther (1951-2007 & 1956-2021).