Galena, 3139


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Description

Heavy specimen consisting of a layer of clustered, dull gray, metallic, modified cubo-octahedral crystals of galena, atop a layer of white earthy barite (referred to as 'cawk' in the historic Catalog). Several crystals of white to colorless tabular barite are also present clustered with the galena, and having tiny crystals of yellow metallic pyrite included.


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