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Galena With Quartz

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Galena With Quartz

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Description
Locality: 
Wohlfahrt Mine, Rescheid, Hellenthal, Cologne, North Rhine - Westphalia, Germany
Size Range: 
Cabinet (10-18 cm)
Size: 
10.8 × 6.9 × 5.5 cm
Largest Crystal: 
2.20cm
Description

Material from the Wohlfahrt Mine is very rarely offered. The mine was abandoned in 1940 and is now part of a visitor's mine and museum. This specimen has a little weathered galena crystals, partly overgrown with colorless quartz.

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

Quartz

Formula: 
SiO2
Strunz: 
4.DA.05
Crystal System: 
Trigonal
Hardness: 
7.0
Streak: 
White

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