AllMinerals/JohnBetts-FineMinerals > Online Mineral Museum Photographic Archive > Minerals from Bulgaria > Sphalerite (Spinel-law twinned) with Galena |
DESCRIPTION: | No. 55485 |
Mineral: | Sphalerite (Spinel-law twinned) with Galena |
Locality: | Deveti Septemvri Mine, Madan District, Rhodope Mountains, Bulgaria |
Description: | Highly lustrous black sphalerite crystals to 32 mm that are twinned on {111} following the Spinel Law of isometric twinning, with a 16 mm gray-metallic cubo-octahedral galena crystal on one edge. |
Overall Size: | 4.5x3.5x3 cm |
Crystals: | 3-32 mm |
Archived: | For reference only |
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