| AllMinerals/JohnBetts-FineMinerals > Online Mineral Museum Photographic Archive > Minerals from New Mexico > Galena with Anglesite coating on Quartz with Fluorite |
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| DESCRIPTION: | No. 78199 |
| Mineral: | Galena with Anglesite coating on Quartz with Fluorite |
| Locality: | Blanchard Mine, Hansonburg District, 8.5 km south of Bingham, Socorro County, New Mexico |
| Description: | Unusually large 20 mm rectangular gray-metallic galena crystal, with surface coating of transparent colorless anglesite microcrystals, on lustrous transparent colorless quartz crystals to 2 mm with a few colorless transparent fluorite crystals to 9 mm. Collected ca. 1970 |
| Overall Size: | 5.5x4.5x3 cm |
| Crystals: | micro to 20 mm |
| Archived: | For reference only |
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