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Fluorite and lead ore

Description: Large euhedral fluorite cubic crystals and galena crystals with a layer of finer, anhedral, brown dolomite. A second sample is large, euhedral galena crystals with a thin coating of fine, euhedral quartz crystals. The galena crystals sit on a layer of massive quartz and fine dolomite. A third sample consists of coarse, euhedral quartz crystals sitting on a mass of finer, euhedral galena.

Measurements: 5 inch 6 inch

Taxonomic name: Fluorite and galena

Collection: Natural History Geology Collection

ID number: 1966-0081

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