Platy Galena from the Viburnum Trend, Southeast Missouri: Character, Mine Distribution, Paragenetic Position, Trace Element Content, Nature of Twinning, and Conditions of Formation

• Main Author: Hagni, Richard D.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Scholars' Mine 2018
• Subjects: Galena; Missouri; Morphology; Paragenesis; Spinel twins; Trace elements; Viburnum Trend; Geology; Buick; Canada; Northwest Territories; Pine Point; Sweetwater
• Online Access: https://scholarsmine.mst.edu/geosci_geo_peteng_facwork/1557; https://scholarsmine.mst.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2568&context=geosci_geo_peteng_facwork

The Viburnum Trend of southeast Missouri is one of the world’s largest producers of lead. The lead occurs as galena, predominantly in two crystallographic forms, octahedrons and cubes. Many studies have shown that octahedral galena is paragentically early, the more abundant of the two crystal forms,...