Galena, Sphalerite, Calcite
Galmoy Mine, Johnstown, Kilkenny County, Leinster, Ireland
8 X 6 cm specimen of lustrous galena crystals with calcite and minor sphalerite from the R orebody. Very few galena specimens survive from this mine due to an indifferent, and at times even hostile, attitude towards specimen recovery. A tragedy for Irish mineralogy for, as this piece shows, the mine had the potential to rival the famous Mogul ...
© Dr Stephen Moreton