skeletal GALENA, CHALCOPYRITE, PYRITE, bi-terminated QUARTZ, SPHALERITE


Specimen: #10178
Locality: 9th Septemvri mine (Deveti Septemvri mine), Madan ore field, Rhodope Mts, Smolyan Oblast, Bulgaria
Size: 53mm x 47mm x 38mm
Size description: Small Cabinet
Shipping: USA 12.80, Canada 11.80, Worldwide 18.90, China via UPS 33.00 (USD)
Status: SOLD

Gorgeous specimen displaying silver-metallic skeletal Galena intergrown with Chalcopyrite 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. Yellow Chalcopyrite crystals and lustrous Pyrite cubes sit attractively around. Some doubly terminated Quartzes and Sphalerites are seen too. In good condition – some small nicks and contacts.

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



skeletal GALENA, CHALCOPYRITE, PYRITE, bi-terminated QUARTZ, SPHALERITE

skeletal GALENA, CHALCOPYRITE, PYRITE, bi-terminated QUARTZ, SPHALERITE

skeletal GALENA, CHALCOPYRITE, PYRITE, bi-terminated QUARTZ, SPHALERITE

skeletal GALENA, CHALCOPYRITE, PYRITE, bi-terminated QUARTZ, SPHALERITE

skeletal GALENA, CHALCOPYRITE, PYRITE, bi-terminated QUARTZ, SPHALERITE