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Galena On Baryte

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Galena On Baryte

Classic Locality

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Description
Locality: 
Bad Bleiberg, Villach-Land District, Carinthia, Austria
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
6.5 × 5 × 4 cm
Largest Crystal: 
2.10cm
Description

A very nice oldie from the famous and classic mines of Bleiberg in Carinthia: Lead grey group of galena crystals with octahedral habit host on whiteish sheet-like barite crystals.

Increasingly rare.

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

Baryte

Formula: 
BaSO4
Strunz: 
7.AD.35
Hardness: 
3.0 - 3.5
Streak: 
White