| AllMinerals/JohnBetts-FineMinerals > Online Mineral Museum Photographic Archive > Minerals from Virginia > Galena in Calcite |
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| DESCRIPTION: | No. 76143 |
| Mineral: | Galena in Calcite |
| Locality: | Luck Stone Quarry, Bealeton, Fauquier County, Virginia |
| Description: | Lustrous gray-metallic galena crystals in translucent colorless calcite. The galena crystals appear to be complexly twinned following the Spinel Law of isometric twinning on the {111} plane. Previous label lists sphalerite, but it is probably psilomelane |
| Overall Size: | 13x10x10 mm |
| Crystals: | micro to 5 mm |
| Archived: | For reference only |
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