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Description: Calcite, Galena Locality: Elmwood mine, Carthage, Central Tennessee Ba-F-Pb-Zn District, Smith County, Tennessee, USA (Locality at mindat.org) Size: small cabinet, 6.9 x 6.0 x 4.4 cm Galena and Calcite This is an aesthetic floater cluster of stacked, modified cubes of galena, up to 2.0 cm across. The battleship gray color and very good luster are supplemented by several, gemmy, golden calcite crystals, to .7 cm across, on the back side of the specimen. Complete-all-around.
Title: Calcite-Galena-elm56c
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