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Galena with Pyrite and Dolomite from Sweetwater Mine, Viburnum Trend, Reynolds County, Missouri

 
Galena with Pyrite and Dolomite from Sweetwater Mine, Viburnum Trend, Reynolds County, Missouri

Galena with Pyrite and Dolomite from Sweetwater Mine, Viburnum Trend, Reynolds County, Missouri

Galena with Pyrite and Dolomite from Sweetwater Mine, Viburnum Trend, Reynolds County, Missouri

Galena with Pyrite and Dolomite from Sweetwater Mine, Viburnum Trend, Reynolds County, Missouri

DESCRIPTION:No. 81387
Mineral:Galena with Pyrite and Dolomite
Locality:Sweetwater Mine, Viburnum Trend, Reynolds County, Missouri
Description:Lustrous silver-metallic cubic galena crystals to 25 mm with lustrous translucent white rhombic dolomite crystals to 2.5 mm and yellow-metallic pyrite microcrystals. One edge of the largest galena crystal apparently intersected another crystal. Ex. S. Kelland collection; acquired in 2002; ex. Betts #16586; ex. Earle C. Sullivan (1906-2005), author of History and Minerals of Old Mine Park, Trumbull, Ct.
Overall Size:4x4x2.5 cm
Crystals:micro to 25 mm
Archived: For reference only

 

 

 

 

 

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