Plumbogummite epimorphs after galena pseudomorphs after pyromorphite (Plumbeine). Pale coloured cerussite is forming in the hollow of the galena (and elsewhere) too. This shows up particularly under longwave ultraviolet light. Ex Richard Bell. Width of...
Crystalline gold with galena and possibly other sulphides on quartz. Width of view 9mm. Stack of 35 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Dark crystals on galena with a couple of spessartine garnets. Measures 21mm wide. Ex Jo Price Collection.
Twinned harmotome, including “drill bit” habit. Width of view 2.5mm. Stack of 25 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
A group of cube-octahedral galena crystals with hoppered faces. Width of view 8mm. Stack of 45 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Beautiful branching gold crystals on galena and quartz. Width of view 6.75mm. Stack of 68 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Small bits of gold on galena and quartz. It is possible that other sulphides/sulphosalts such as boulangerite(?) are also present. Ex Joan Lamond Collection. Ex Museum Victoria. Width of view 8.63mm. Stack of 49 images....
A small piece of ore comprising mostly galena, but with small patches of sphalerite and quartz. Collected underground in the Emmanuel Level that dates back to 1573. Specimen measures 21x18x4mm. Click on the image below...
A small ore specimen comprising purple fluorite (fluorescent), chalcopyrite, and small amounts of galena and sphalerite. Specimen measures 22x20x20mm. Stack of 50 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Cube-octahedral galena crystals on and in colourless to slightly hint of green cubes of fluorite. Ex Jo Price Collection. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 70 images. Click on the image below for a higher...
As well as the linarite and hemimorphite, there are minor amounts of aurichalcite, brochantite, pyrite, galena, and some skarn minerals present. Collected by Gerry Morvell and acquired from Gerry by Margaret Brown in 1995. Width...
Orange and red greenockite with galena, tennantite-tetrahedrite, pyrite and cerussite. The orange greenockite fluoresces red but the red crystals don’t. Width of view 5mm. Stack of 72 images (white light) and a stack of only...
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1996. Ex Museum Victoria.
Acquired by Joan Lamond in 1996. Ex Museum Victoria. Width of view 3.33mm. Stack of 63 images.
Type Locality. Polished section & analysis of this very rare lead-iron analogue of pentlandite, from the type locality, present as typical submicroscopic grains embedded in massive sulphides. Ex Raymond Hodgson Collection (4272) obtained in 2007....
Brown-tinged cerussite crystals in argentiferous galena with pyrite and minor sphalerite and siderite. Width 11mm. Stack of 100 images.
Small flakes of gold on vein quartz and on galena. Also present in one cavity – malachite and cerussite. Possible acanthite on silver in another. Width 9mm. Stack of 40 images. Ex Jo Price Collection.
Ex Ambros Kissling Collection
Labelled as limonite after sphalerite, Barry Schubert
ex Joan Lamond Collection
Orange-stained platey crystals of valentinte with other species on matrix. Ex New York State Museum, number 3463-1. Ex Kunz Collection, number 216.1 (written in red on specimen). Back of one label says prepared by Dr...
Sharp crystals of sphalerite and galena. Purchased at Keystone, priced at $24.
ex Jack Leach Collection
Cederick Gineste 2/2005
Cubes of galena with tiny pyrite cubes and minor reddish sphalerite from the Ballard Mine, Baxter Springs, Picher Field, Tri-State District, Cherokee Co., Kansas, USA. Specimen is 42mm wide. Ex Eugene Carmichael Collection (EWC 2295),...
