Galena
Galena is a mineral with formula PbS, in the Sulfuros group. This specimen comes from Mina Botieva, Smolyan, Smolyan Oblast, Bulgaria.
Description
Metallic galena crystals with bright quartz and white dolomite on matrix.
Technical data
- Catalogue No.
- 0446
- Internal reference
- T0053
- Composition
- PbS
- Name
- Galena
- Group
- Sulfuros
- Associations
- Cuarzo, Dolomita
- Mine
- Mina Botieva
- District / Municipality
- Smolyan
- Province
- Smolyan Oblast
- Country
- Bulgaria
- Etymology
- From the Latin «galena», a term used since Antiquity for lead minerals.
- Quality
- Buena
- Value trend
- Estable
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