AllMinerals/JohnBetts-FineMinerals > Online Mineral Museum Photographic Archive > Minerals from Missouri > Galena (with unusual complex parallel faces) |
DESCRIPTION: | No. 81505 |
Mineral: | Galena (with unusual complex parallel faces) |
Locality: | Brushy Creek Mine, Viburnum Trend, Reynolds County, Missouri |
Description: | Brilliantly lustrous silver-metallic cubic galena crystals with complex crystallization patterns on the surfaces composed of many smaller parallel octahedral faces that simultaneously reflect light. A very showy specimen (I own one in my collection!) Collected January 2019 |
Overall Size: | 6x4.5x4 cm |
Crystals: | 25-30 mm |
Archived: | For reference only |
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