skeletal GALENA, CHALCOPYRITE, SPHALERITE, PYRITE


Specimen: #10372
Locality: 9th Septemvri mine (Deveti Septemvri mine), Madan ore field, Rhodope Mts, Smolyan Oblast, Bulgaria
Size: 85mm x 73mm x 22mm
Size description: Small Cabinet
Shipping: USA 12.80, Canada 11.80, Worldwide 18.90, China via UPS 33.00 (USD)
Status: SOLD

Marvelous plate of skeletal Galena intergrown with Chalcopyrite, Sphalerites and Pyrite. Very attractive arrangement of stacked and aligned Galena overgrowing each other. Excellent parallel growth of cubes and elongated tetragonal prisms on different axes. They grow one atop another forming amazing terraced structure. All Galena cubes are with truncated corners and some are twinned. Yellow Chalcopyrite crystals and lustrous Pyrite cubes sit attractively around. Black Sphalerites with gem areas are seen too. In very good condition – some small nicks and contacts.

Gorgeous piece from this closed mine – the only one that makes these structures!



skeletal GALENA, CHALCOPYRITE, SPHALERITE, PYRITE

skeletal GALENA, CHALCOPYRITE, SPHALERITE, PYRITE

skeletal GALENA, CHALCOPYRITE, SPHALERITE, PYRITE

skeletal GALENA, CHALCOPYRITE, SPHALERITE, PYRITE

skeletal GALENA, CHALCOPYRITE, SPHALERITE, PYRITE