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Galena in Quartz from Wheatley Mine, Phoenixville, Chester County, Pennsylvania

 
Galena in Quartz from Wheatley Mine, Phoenixville, Chester County, Pennsylvania

Galena in Quartz from Wheatley Mine, Phoenixville, Chester County, Pennsylvania

DESCRIPTION:No. 52101
Mineral:Galena in Quartz
Locality:Wheatley Mine, Phoenixville, Chester County, Pennsylvania
Description:Gray-metallic galena cleavages embedded in milky quartz with many impressions in the quartz from bladed barite crystals that dissolved away. Ex. Peter B. Nalle (1923-2010) collection, collected 1939
Overall Size:9.5x6x5 cm
Crystals:
Archived: For reference only

 

 

 

 

 

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