skeletal GALENA, SPHALERITE


Specimen: #16563
Locality: 9th Septemvri mine (Deveti Septemvri mine), Madan ore field, Rhodope Mts, Smolyan Oblast, Bulgaria
Size: 49mm x 34mm x 24mm
Size description: Miniature
Shipping: USA 12.80, Canada 11.80, Worldwide 18.90, China via UPS 33.00 (USD)
Status: SOLD

Attractive skeletal Galena on Sphalerite base from 9th Septemvri mine, Madan ore field, Bulgaria. Geometrical 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 terraced structure. The faces are matt lustrous. Black Sphalerite crystals are seen too. In very good condition – some small nicks and contacts.
Neat specimen from this closed mine – the only one that makes these structures!



skeletal GALENA, SPHALERITE

skeletal GALENA, SPHALERITE

skeletal GALENA, SPHALERITE

skeletal GALENA, SPHALERITE