Provenite

Buick Mine

MineActiveDraft data

37.6069° N, 91.1267° W · ± 1 km

Galena from Missouri, United States, with photos of specimens from this locality.

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Minerals found here

Galena

Galena at Buick Mine

Viburnum Trend galena forms larger, more euhedral crystals than the galena of the older Lead Belt subdistricts

Cluster of sharp lead-gray spinel-twinned galena crystals to 2 cm across.
Cluster of sharp lead-gray spinel-twinned galena crystals to 2 cm across.
Photo: Robert M. Lavinsky · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source
Sharp galena crystals to 1.5 cm isolated on a matrix covered in pale dolomite crystals.
Sharp galena crystals to 1.5 cm isolated on a matrix covered in pale dolomite crystals.
Photo: Robert M. Lavinsky · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source
Single complex galena crystal with hoppered growth on one side, free of matrix contacts.
Single complex galena crystal with hoppered growth on one side, free of matrix contacts.
Photo: Robert M. Lavinsky · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source
Formula
PbS
Morphology
Spinel-twinned clusters, isolated sharp crystals on matrix and large complex single crystals
Typical size
Crystals to about 2 cm on photographed specimens; a large single crystal on a 9.5 cm specimen
Color / luster
Lead-gray with lustrous faces
Associated minerals
Dolomite
Surface features
Hoppered growth on one side of a large single crystal
Twins
Spinel-law twins on photographed specimens
History
Buick Mine, owned by the Doe Run Company, was still among the operating Missouri lead mines in 2022

Sources: SRC-339 SRC-341 SRC-342 SRC-343

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Geology of the locality

Setting
Mine in the Viburnum Trend lead-zinc district, whose ore sits in stromatolite reef dolomites on the flanks of Precambrian knobs.
Type
Hydrothermal
Host rock
Dolomite of the upper Bonneterre Formation (district-level description)
Region
Missouri
Country
United States

Coordinates are those of the Buick settlement, where the Buick Mine is located (Wikipedia); mine shafts may lie within about a kilometre. Alternative names Amax Buick Mine and Moloc Mine.

Sources: SRC-339 SRC-341 SRC-342

Sources

  1. SRC-339 · Website
    Southeast Missouri Lead District (Lead Belt)Wikipedia contributors · Wikipedia
  2. SRC-341 · Database
    Buick Mine (Amax Buick Mine; Moloc Mine), Bixby, Iron County, Missouri, USAMindat.org contributors · Hudson Institute of Mineralogy (Mindat.org)
  3. SRC-342 · Website
    Buick, MissouriWikipedia contributors · Wikipedia
  4. SRC-343 · Website
    Wikimedia Commons file pages Galena-139576.jpg, Galena-171987.jpg, Galena-214762.jpgRobert M. Lavinsky (photographer); dealer description · Wikimedia Commons

Draft data from the Provenite workbook. Check entries against the cited sources before relying on them. Photos are open-licence images from Wikimedia Commons; the author and licence are given with each photo.