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Galena With Chalcopyrite & Calcite

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Galena With Chalcopyrite & Calcite

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Description
Locality: 
Herja Mine, Chiuzbaia, Baia Mare, Maramureș County, Romania
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Cabinet (10-18 cm)
Size: 
10.1 × 9.4 × 6.7 cm
Largest Crystal: 
1.40cm
Description

Choice cabinet of galena on creamy dolomite matrix. Galena crystals - over two dozens in total - are cuboctahedrons with excellent lustre, sometimes the faces are perfectly smooth, sometimes they show either growth pattern or beginning of a hoppering. The specimen also features some chalcopyrite crystals, sometimes with contact twins, also very lustrous and contributing to some great color contrast.
In excellent conditions, now rather hard to find in this quality.

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

Chalcopyrite

Formula: 
CuFeS2
Strunz: 
2.CB.10a
Crystal System: 
Tetragonal
Hardness: 
3.5 - 4.0

Calcite

Polymorph of: 
Formula: 
CaCO3
Strunz: 
5.AB.05
Crystal System: 
Trigonal
Hardness: 
3.0
Streak: 
White

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