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Galena

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Description
Locality: 
Einigkeit Mine, Brand-Erbisdorf, Freiberg District, Saxony, Germany
Class: 
Crystal Group/Cluster
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
5 × 6 × 3.5 cm
Description

An impressive big specimen of metallic dull to lustrous galena sharply crystallized as combination of cube and octahedron. Typical are the healed cracks within the crystal. Some secondary mineral crusts could just be cleaned. The vein Stephan Spat was among the most important silver veins and famous for big galena crystals. See it for example at the Academic Collection of  Freiberg.

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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Marco Drechsel

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SWIFT/BIC-Code: WELADED1FGX

IBAN: DE49 870520004111076110