Galena, 3140


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Description

Heavy sample of silvery gray metallic cubic galena on a base of white massive mineral (probably barite). The galena has much colorless and pale purple transparent cubic fluorite on many of the crystal faces, while the fluorite is in turn included with tiny yellow metallic pyrite crystals and red sphalerite crystals.


Subject

  • Geology
  • Mineralogy


Details

Contributor
Cooper, Thomas, 1759-1839
Publisher
University of South Carolina. McKissick Museum.
Coverage
Derbyshire, England, United Kingdom
Relations
Historic Southern Naturalists