A Geoscience Digital Image Library
A Geoscience Digital Image Library
| Title | Galena |
|---|---|
| Description | Galena (PbS) is the most common lead ore mineral. Its high density, cubic cleavage, and gray metallic color are distinctive. (This sample, 9 cm wide, has limonite coating on the outside.) Perfectly formed galena crystals may be cubes, but many other shapes are possible. The sample here contains several crystals grown together. |
| Photographer | Darla Sondrol. 2001-06-27. |
| Collection | University of North Dakota Mineralogy Collection #150. |
| Key words | galena |
| Tech details | 638 KB. Hand specimen. Fujifilm FinePix S1Pro digital camera; 60mm AF Nikon micro lens. |
| GeoDIL number | 926 |
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