Mineral: Galena
Locality: Fletcher Mine, West Fork, Viburnum Trend District, Reynolds County, Missouri, USA
Dimensions: 5.2 cm long

Description: Raga Minerals had 6 of these strange galenas. I thought they would certainly be twins, being elongated and tabular, but this is a single crystal that had a thin plate of something between the two forks. The surface features are consistent with the single crystal and are the product of etching.

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