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Galena

Locality: Septemvri mine (Deveti Septemvri mine), Madan ore field, Rhodope Mts, Smolyan Oblast, Bulgaria

4.8 x 3.8 x 3.8 cm. Massive galena with some associated quartz forms the matrix for skeletal, lustrous, battleship-gray, galena crystals to a whopping 2.5 cm in length. You can imagine how few of this size might survive?! This is more lustrous than others here, for some reason, and is MUCH ORE 3-dimensional in person. The crystals exhibit various stages of etching with the largest crystal displaying only crystal edges. Dramatic!

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Photo added: 19th Jan 2008

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