Galena

Item Description

A classic specimen from the Madan Ore Field in Bulgaria, one of the great sulfide producing areas in the world over the last few decades. The piece features attractive, sharp, lustrous, slightly skeletal metallic silvery-grey colored cubic crystals of Galena, free of matrix. My favorite aspect of the piece is that some of the crystals are notably compressed in one direction, creating rarely seen tabular Galena crystals. From the worldwide mineral collection of Albert ("Al") Lewis Kidwell (January 1, 1919 - August 16, 2008). Al was a well-known mineral collector and research geologist with Carter Oil Company and later Exxon Oil Company in Houston, Texas. The phosphate species Kidwellite was named in his honor in 1974.