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[Tobi]

What are your favourite localities for GALENA? My favourites are:

- Neudorf, Harzgerode mining district, Harz, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany
- Pfannenberger Einigkeit Mine, Salchendorf, Neunkirchen, Siegerland, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
- Dal'negorsk, Kavalerovo Mining District, Primorskiy Kray, Far-Eastern Region, Russia
- Sweetwater Mine, Ellington, Viburnum Trend District, Reynolds Co., Missouri, USA
- Picher Field, Tri-State District, Ottawa Co., Oklahoma, USA

[James Catmur]

Good move Tobi.

The mines in Weardale have to get a mention

[Tobi]

[vic rzonca]

The lead mines at Loudville, Massachusetts, USA, near Northampton. A rare euhedral galena crystal on quartz with minor Baryte.

[Les Presmyk]

For Arizona, it is the Iron Cap mine.

[Tobi]

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I changed the name of the topic from "Favourite Galena localities" to "Favourite Galenas". So everyone can feel free not only to discuss his/her favourite localities but also which colours and forms of that mineral he/she likes the most, e.g. simple or complex crystal forms, lustrous or not etc. ...

[Tobi]

Another specimen (and finally my own one) from Neudorf, I simply love them:

[Tobi]

[Tobi]

Three more favourites, Blackdene again, Poland and a rather unkown German locality:

[jfc035]

[jfc035]

Interconnected groups of flattened twinned crystals (largest group up to 4 cm across); associated with minor Pyrite on the backside (overall 9.0 x 8.0 x 4.6 cm). Old specimen (pre-1910) from a not so common mine that has produced this unusual type of fine Galenas. From Rodna mine, Rodna, Rodna Mts (Rodnei Mts), Romania.

[jfc035]

Thin bladed, penetration twinned, lustrous crystals of Galena to 3.0 cm in size, with pearly white Dolomite crystals in association (overall 10.0 x 8.5 x 7.0 cm, 2.18 pounds). From recent finds in this new orebody (winter 2013). These are flattened penetration twins, which look like spinel law twins but the angles are wrong. There are also elongated dodecahedral crytals. These are quite large twinned crystals for Galena from this mining district. From Big Bear Orebody, Fletcher Mine, Viburnum Trend District, Reynolds Co., Missouri, USA.

[jfc035]

Typical specimen of “Knitted Galena” showing neat “dendritic” forms (those are actually branched three-dimensional single-crystal skeletal forms; see: Geochem. Mineral. Petrol. Sofia, 2006, 44, 1-18.). The dendrites are encrusted with microcrystalline Cerussite; a possible first layer of colloform fine-banded Sphalerite is not excluded but not that obvious, which contrasts with most of specimens of this type (overall 14.0 x 7.0 x 6.0 cm; 3.59 pounds). Old time specimen from Schmalgraf Mine, Moresnet, Kelmis, Plombières-Vieille Montagne District (Plombières-Altenberg), Verviers, Liège Province, Belgium.

[jfc035]

Another view

[jfc035]

Galena needles (“knitted galena”) associated with brownish spherulites of Sphalerite (overall 7.5 x 6.0 x 1.5 cm). From Les Vieux Travaux mine, Les Malines District, Saint-Laurent-le-Minier, Gard, Occitanie, France. Only a few pieces of this type were collected in the 80's in the Vieux-Travaux area

[jfc035]

[Jordi Fabre]

jfc035,

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[jfc035]

Jordi, Tobi

My sincere apologies!
Many thanks for fixing my posts. I promise to be a good scholar from now -))

Best, jf

[Brent Lockhart]

Galena specimen from 2009 finds

[Enrique Llorens]

Morocco galena.