galena

lyijyhohde, galeniitti puhekieltä A mineral, lead sulphide (PbS), mined as an ore for lead. (defdate)
1939 November, Raymond B. Wailes, Chemical Engineering for Home Experimenters, w:Popular Science|Popular Science, http://books.google.com.au/books?id=QywDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA207&dq=%22galena%22%7C%22galenas%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=tA1wUefaOImWiQeLnYDoCA&redir_esc=yv=onepage&q=%22galena%22%7C%22galenas%22&f=false page 207,

You can easily extract lead from galena, a natural mineral which has been used in crystal radio receivers.

The galena of the ore contains microscopic inclusions of various forms that become visible upon polished surfaces etched with hydrochloric or nitric acid.

These samples had higher Pb206 and Pb208 abundances than any other galenas yet examined.

Very little galena has been reported (recovered mostly from burial mounds) in the Great Lakes region indicating that the mineral was not a major interregional exchange commodity during this period. However, numerous galenas have been recovered from the lower Mississippi Valley region and Florida indicating that galena was part of an important north-south exchange system (Walthall 1981).

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