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MINERALS INDEX
Galena |
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Galena is found only in coarse and fine granular masses, with the characteristic marked cubic cleavage, in small amounts in the pegmatite of the Trotter mine at Franklin, somewhat more abundantly in the coarse pegmatite at Sterling Hill, and in the limestone and jeffersonite near the pegmatite contact. It is interesting chiefly as the probable source of a number of secondary minerals, and showing the presence of lead in the pegmatite magma. Spurr and Lewis (234) record finding veins in the Kittatinny limestone containing galena with other sulphides.
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