GALENA
Specimen gal-43
$ 30.00dims mm=94.73x78.36x43.31
wt g=605
Pine Point, North West Territories, Canada
Dozens of intergrown cubic crystals of galena cover most of one surface of this specimen. The galena has a finely pitted surface resulting in a dulled luster, except for a few shiney cleavage surfaces. The host rock is either calcite or dolomite which has mostly been etched away, also revealing hundreds of distorted translucent dirty-green crystals that look like olivine to me, but could conceivably be something else such as a green sphalerite.