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Galena

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Description
Locality: 
Maubacher Bleiberg, Untermaubach, Düren, Eifel, North Rhine - Westphalia, Germany
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Cabinet (10-18 cm)
Size: 
11.6 × 9 × 2.3 cm
Weight: 
423.00gr
Description

Glossy gray galena crystals on a qurtz-sandstone matrix. About half of the crystals are contacted/damaged. I guess it's because this is one part of a tight cleft where the crystals were attached to the other side.

Still a 'natural', collectable specimen.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Galena

Formula: 
PbS
Strunz: 
2.CD.10
Crystal System: 
Isometric
Hardness: 
2.5
Colour: 
Lead-grey
Streak: 
Lead-grey

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