GALENA CRYSTAL CUBE showing great shape. This specimen features superb, cubic formations of Galena aesthetically sitting on a perspex stand.
Galena is a major ore of Lead and Silver. Excellent location.
Location:
Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia.
Dimensions:
1.9cm x 2.4cm x2.2cm, 62g.
An aesthetic specimen featuring three minerals – gemmy golden Sphalerite, Galena & Quartz crystals on matrix. A great piece to show the different crystal forms of these minerals. Start or improve your metals collection with this oresome piece from a well-known location.
Location:
Madan, Bulgaria
Dimensions:
7.5cm x 4cm x 3cm, 117g
A beautiful specimen of prominent octahedral Galena Crystals, on a drusy quartz matrix. Perfect little chalcopyrite and calcite crystals are also visible. A collection worthy piece from an excellent location!
Location:
Sweetwater Mine, Ellington, Missouri.
Dimensions:
7.5cm x 5cm x 5.5cm, 236g.
A striking specimen of Tabular Calcite Crystals. This is a fine cluster showing one of the less usual formations that calcite appears in. A large 6.2cm Tabular Calcite Crystal dominates the center of this hand sized specimen. The main crystal is surrounded by more than a dozen smaller crystals on a matrix of Galena and some associated sparkling minerals. Aesthetic, collectable and hard to find in nice clean clusters like this. Calcite comes in an incredible range of crystal formations and colours. This specimen will be a great addition to any mineral or crystal collection. Particularly for the collector interested in crystal form and minerals with many variations. This specimen is from very old stock and the best of a bunch.
Location:
Mine No. 884 Mine, Chenzhou, Hunan, China.
Dimensions:
13.2cm x 11.2cm x 7cm, 590g.
Main crystal, 6.2cm.
Beautifully simple Sparkling Pyrite Crystals with very reflective faces. Great addition for mineral, metals or pyrite collections. The mineral pyrite, or iron pyrite, also known as fool’s gold, is an iron sulfide which has the chemical formula FeS2. This mineral’s metallic luster and brass yellow hue give it a superficial resemblance to gold, hence the well-known nickname of fool’s gold. Interestingly Pyrite does not attract a magnet. This specimen comes from a premier location and sports a mini cave cavity right through.
Dimensions:
5.5cm x 4.6cm x 3.6cm, 124g.
Location:
Madan, Bulgaria.
A stunning and sparkling Pyrite Crystal Cluster. Very sparkly and solid Pyrite. This specimen is large with shining crystals. A very interesting piece, some crystals are striated and the cluster is a great golden yellow colour. Some minor Galena and Quarts crystals.
Location:
Huanzala, Peru.
Dimensions:
7cm x 8cm x 5cm, 452g.
A superb specimen of Gemmy Rhodonite Crystals in Galena. A cluster of chunky, red translucent crystals on matrix. This specimen in particular shows amazing crystal colour and shape and will make a worthy addition to any collection. Two main crystals one atop the other nested in Truncated Galena from Broken Hill.
Location:
Broken Hill, NSW
Dimensions:
3.7cm x 2.5cm x 2.2cm, 34g.
Named in 1819 by Christoph Friedrich Jasche from the Greek rhodos or “rose”, referring to its colour.
Galena is the primary ore mineral of lead. Worked for its lead content as early as 3000 BC, it is found in ore veins with sphalerite, pyrite, chalcopyrite, tennantite-tetrahedrite, etc. and in skarns, as well as in sedimentary rocks where it may replace carbonate beds or be deposited in pore spaces.
A notably Pink Bustamite Specimen! This piece is solid Bustamite showing crystals faces in places with Galena crystals and Sphalerite throughout. A very interesting rock you could inspect for hours. Bustamite is rarer than the Rhodonite often found with Galena from this location. The colour and shape of the crystals in this matrix are also above average. This is a great overall example of Broken Hill minerals to add to your Australian mineral collection.
Dimensions:
8.5cm x 12cm x 9.5cm, 1100g.
Location:
Broken Hill, NSW, Australia.
Aesthetic Pyrite Crystal Cluster for sale. Showing Crystal forms with highly reflective and striated faces. A truly unique gift for yourself or someone good. Bling Bling. Mounted on a perspex pad for enhanced display.
Dimensions:
4.1cm x 3.2cm x 2.4cm, 32g.
Location:
Madan, Bulgaria.
Bismuthinite Rare Bismuth specimen. A little beauty with some white green sulfide sprinkled between the crevices. The close up pic shows typical crystal form. The specimen is on a perspex pad for enhanced display.
Dimensions:
2.9cm x 2.2cm x 1.6cm, 35g.
Location:
Wolfram Camp, Australia.
Bismuthinite is an important ore of bismuth. Sprays of steel gray prismatic bismuthinite crystals radiate outward from a common attachment point in the more spectacular specimens of this somewhat rare sulfide mineral. These specimens can not help but be compared to specimens of stibnite. It is difficult to distinguish from the similar looking and closely related antimony sulfide. Bismuthinite is heavier than stibnite and on closer inspection of the crystals, there exists a noticeable difference with bismuthinite’s having straighter, flatter faces. In massive form the confusion is even more pronounced, but bismuthinite is not associated with the typical antimony or arsenic minerals to which stibnite is so commonly allied.
