Description

Mounds of quartz crystals host two absolutely exquisite galena crystals, twinned on the spinel law. The larger one is a stunner, sitting in the centre and measuring 2.1 cm. These are textbook twins, so perfect they would look completely machined if not for the fine crystallization texture – lustrous and sharp, they are just super! A third, smaller, galena twin is perched on the left-hand side of the piece, and there are also single (not twinned) cuboctahedal galena crystals. Between the two featured twins, platy calcite crystals are coated by a second generation of sharp flattened calcite crystals. With magnification, one can see small blackish-silver needle-like crystals, both as inclusions in the calcite and elsewhere on the piece – tough to identify the mineral without proper analysis but most likely one of the sulfosalts (several are found at Dal’negorsk).

This specimen is in excellent condition – there is no damage, other than a couple of incomplete galenas at the periphery. The featured crystals are pristine.

A beautiful Dal’negorsk cabinet piece.