GALENA / LEAD GLANCE / LEAD SULFIDE, protection – grounding – harmony – balance

GALENA, LEAD GLANCE, LEAD SULFIDE, LEAD ORE, STONE PROPERTIES, ENERGY - HARMONY - BALANCE - GROUNDING

Galenite tells us to live life with joy every day, regardless of age. Surpass yourself, realize your inner strength that can change the world.

• a strongly grounding stone
• a stone of harmony - I bring balance on all levels
• shows us life as it is and makes visible the strength we have within ourselves
• I bring the physical and mental aspects of the human personality into harmony
• opens the mind and gives thoughts broader dimensions - teaches us so that our dreams and visions may come true here on Earth, while also opening us up and conveying that everything we feel with our whole body, Heart and soul is possible.
• drives away self-deprecation based on unpleasant past experiences
• is used to ward off unwanted energies; in the past, it was also used in cleansing rituals

it is composed primarily of lead

HEALTH EFFECTS

• I suppress inflammation and rashes
• It stimulates blood circulation and has a beneficial effect on the arteries
• I increase the storage of selenium and zinc in the body
• It has a beneficial effect on hair, its growth and quality

COLOR: steel gray with a metallic sheen

SITE

It is most often lumpy or granular. Its crystals are often abundant, either as cubes or octahedra, or as combinations of cube and octahedron. When broken, it shatters into small cubes.
It occurs in hydrothermal ore veins and is one of the most abundant sulfides in most ore deposits. It is primarily lead ore, but also a source of silver, which is often present as an impurity.

• In our country, its beautiful and large crystals were found primarily in Stříbro, Příbram, Stará Vožice, and Ratibořské Hory. It was also abundant in Oloví, Bohutín, Kutná Hora, Harrachov, Jihlava, etc., he was also at the burning spoil heaps of the Kateřina mine in Radvanice.
• In Slovakia, in Banská Štiavnica.
• Beautiful examples of it are known from abroad from many localities, e.g. Joplin in Missouri, Picher in Oklahoma, Dalnegorsk in Russia, Madan in Bulgaria, Broken Hill in Australia, Cavnic in Romania, etc.

HISTORY AND TRADITION

Galena is an abundant mineral, lead sulfide, PbS. Formerly also called galena or lead glance. It was named by Pliny the Elder (77–79) after the Greek term for lead ores, “galene.” 
Galena (lead glance, lead sulfide – PbS)  is an abundant mineral that crystallizes in the cubic system. The older Czech name is leaden bleak. Crystals are often abundant and known from many localities in fine form, mostly intergrown and sometimes considerably large.
forms steel-gray, metallically lustrous, opaque, well-defined crystals reaching sizes of up to 14 mm, which intergrow with one another and among which dark brown sphalerite crystals with a dull to vitreous luster grow. Most galena crystals have a nice skeletal development.