skeletal GALENA, CHALCOPYRITE, SPHALERITE


Specimen: #11199
Locality: 9th Septemvri mine (Deveti Septemvri mine), Madan ore field, Rhodope Mts, Smolyan Oblast, Bulgaria
Size: 72mm x 59mm x 16mm
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 decorated by Chalcopyrite and Sphalerites. 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. Yellow Chalcopyrite crystals sit attractively around. Twinned, black Sphalerite is 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

skeletal GALENA, CHALCOPYRITE, SPHALERITE

skeletal GALENA, CHALCOPYRITE, SPHALERITE

skeletal GALENA, CHALCOPYRITE, SPHALERITE