AllMinerals/JohnBetts-FineMinerals > Online Mineral Museum Photographic Archive > Minerals from Bulgaria > Galena (plate-like skeletal crystals) with Sphalerite and Chalcopyrite on Quartz |
DESCRIPTION: | No. 58902 |
Mineral: | Galena (plate-like skeletal crystals) with Sphalerite and Chalcopyrite on Quartz |
Locality: | Deveti Septemvri Mine, Madan District, Rhodope Mountains, Bulgaria |
Description: | Unusual thin rectangular crystals of gray-metallic galena to 10 mm across on transparent colorless quartz crystals to 7 mm with lustrous black sphalerite crystals to 3 mm and minor yellow-metallic chalcopyrite crystals to 0.5 mm. |
Overall Size: | 5x3.5x3 cm |
Crystals: | micro to 10 mm |
Archived: | For reference only |
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