Schalenblende, Galena, Marcasite
Pomorzany Mine, Gmina Olkusz, Olkusz County, Lesser Poland Voivodeship, Poland
"Schalenblende" is the old local name for what turned out to be a mixture of sphalerite, wurtzite?, galena and marcasite. The golden bands are composed of the sphalerite-wurtzite series, and the beautiful pattern they form reminds one of the great, concentric patterns you also see in malachite and rhodochrosite, to name a few. Interestingly, the ...
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