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Galena & Sphalerite

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Galena & Sphalerite

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Description
Locality: 
Bote Mine, Zacatecas, Zacatecas Municipality, Zacatecas, Mexico
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
8 × 7.5 × 5 cm
Weight: 
500.00gr
Description

This is a very attractive specimen of lustrous sharp galena crystals and deep brown shpalerite crystals on a bed of quartz crystals.

With brown dolomite crystals

Ex Fritz Haller collection

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

Sphalerite

Formula: 
ZnS
Strunz: 
2.CB.05a
Crystal System: 
Isometric
Hardness: 
3.5 - 4.0