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9 unusual facts about Galena


Compton I. White

In 1925, White received an unexpected windfall when a valuable mine of Galena ore was found on his property.

Galena, Alaska

In 2004, the Galena City Council tentatively accepted a proposal from Toshiba Corporation to build the Galena Nuclear Power Plant, a small, self-contained nuclear power plant.

There were 12 summer fish camps located on the Yukon River between the Koyukuk River and the Nowitna River.

Galena, Kansas

James C. Corman (1920–2000), California politician, born in Galena.

Henry Reed Stiles

He practiced medicine for a few months in New York City before moving briefly to Galena, Ohio, where he took on a partner, Dr. Timothy M. Wilcox.

Illinois Service

A new line, the Black Hawk to Dubuque, Iowa via Rockford, Freeport and Galena, based on a former service to Dubuque that ran from 1974 to 1981

USS Galena

They were named for various communities that, in turn, were named for a native lead sulfide, the chief ore of lead.

Cities, towns, and villages with the name exist in Kansas, Illinois, Maryland, Missouri, Ohio, and Alaska.

USS PC-1136

The ship was named Galena (PC-1136) on 15 February 1956, after cities in Alaska, Kansas, Illinois, Maryland, Missouri, and Ohio; all of those which were named for a native lead sulfide, the chief ore of lead.


Age of the Earth

Nevertheless, ancient Archaean lead ores of galena have been used to date the formation of Earth as these represent the earliest formed lead-only minerals on the planet and record the earliest homogeneous lead-lead isotope systems on the planet.

Ardaite

Ardaite occurs as 50 µm fine-grained aggregates of acicular crystals associated with galena, pyrostilpnite, anglesite, nadorite, and Cl-bearing robinsonite and semseyite, in the Madjarovo polymetallic ore deposit in Bulgaria.

Ayelet Galena

Ayelet is the granddaughter of Rabbi Reuben Poupko of Montreal, QC and Arna Poupko Fisher of Cincinnati, OH and Rita Lourie-Galena of New York, NY and the late Dr. Harold Galena, after whom she is named after (Ayelet means deer in Hebrew).

The Galena family partnered with Gift of Life Bone Marrow Foundation and DKMS Americas to set up many drives in the hopes of finding Ayelet a perfect bone marrow donor match.

Bournonite

Later, still better crystals were found in another Cornish mine, namely, Herodsfoot mine near Liskeard, which was worked for argentiferous galena.

Castro Verde Municipality

Further, the municipality of Castro Verde is crossed by the Iberian Pyrite Belt, composed of a massive volcanogenic sulfide deposit (VMS) associated with the polymetallic flanks of volcanic cones in the form of pyrite, chalcopyrite, sphalerite, galena and cassiterite, that begins in Aljustrel, spreads through the lower Alentejo and extends into southern Spain.

Chicago Central

By September 1854 the tracks ran to Scales Mound, Illinois and on October 31, 1854, the Illinois Central made it to Galena, Illinois.

KCAR

KCAR-FM, a radio station (104.3 FM) licensed to Galena, Kansas, United States

Keuper

To this division belong the Myophoria beds (M. Raibliana) with galena in places; the Estheria beds (E. laxilesta); the Schelfsandstein, used as a building-stone; the Lehrherg and Berg-gyps beds; Semionotus beds (S. Bergen) with building-stone of Coburg; and the Burgand Stubensandstein.

Lowden State Park

The Galena-Platteville Aquifer's spring water in the area travels south from Platteville and Glenwood, Wisconsin through layers of rocks into northern Illinois.

Old Stone Hotel

The Chicago-Galena Trail and the Sucker Trail, which went from St. Louis to the lead smelting operations in Wiota, Wisconsin.

Sinsinawa Mound raid

When news of the raid reached Galena, Illinois, Captain James W. Stephenson set out with thirty soldiers to pursue the raiding party.

South Crofty

The previous owner of the mine, Baseresult Holdings Ltd. was the majority shareholder of the new company alongside Casserite LP, an investment vehicle acting for Galena Asset Management, a subsidiary of commodity trading company Trafigura.

WDBQ

WDBQ-FM, a radio station (107.5 FM) licensed to Galena, Illinois, United States


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