Galena

Description

Galena - a single metallic grey cube associated with three white calcite crystals on quartz and matrix - from New Glencrieff Mine, Wanlockhead, Dumfriesshire.

Museum reference

G.1994.1.34

Collection

Natural Sciences

Object name

Galena

Collection place(s)

New Glencrieff Mine, Wanlockhead, Dumfriesshire, Scotland, Northern Europe

Associations

Lindsay Greenbank Collection
Nick Carruth Collection
D. Lloyd Collection
A. Scoble Collection
Calcite
Quartz

Exhibitions

• Earth in Space (29 Jul 2011)
  National Museum of Scotland

On display

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natural world, earth in space »
matter (building blocks)