Galena and sphalerite. Shullsburg, Wisconsin, USA




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250µm


Well crystallized galena is white (top right) and is intergrown with poorly polished fine-grained galena (pitted areas, centre). Both are interbanded with sphalerite (light grey, centre left). Black areas are voids.


Polished block, plane polarized light, x 80, air



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