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Galena

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Description
Locality: 
Mid Continent Mine, Treece, Picher, Cherokee County, Kansas, United States of America
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
4 × 3.3 × 3 cm
Largest Crystal: 
2.70cm
Description

Wonderful gray, metallic crystals of galena on small matrix. The galena crystals are large, cubic form with 2-6 mm octahedral crystals resembling truncated pyramids, overgrown on the surface.

With minor marcasite and wurtzite microcrystals.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Galena

Formula: 
PbS
Strunz: 
2.CD.10
Crystal System: 
Isometric
Hardness: 
2.5
Colour: 
Lead-grey
Streak: 
Lead-grey