Galena Summit The Galena Lodge (in historic Galena) is at , on the Ketchum side of the summit, and hosts cross country skiing. Collegiate alpine ski races were held on the summit in late 1947, due to a lack of snow at Sun Valley, and supplies were dropped in by airplane. The Ore-Ida Women's Challenge bicycle race (1984–2002) had a stage that crested the summit. Galena is a mineral, lead sulfide, an important lead ore; deposits of galena often contain silver. Galena Summit Galena Summit is a high mountain pass in the western United States in central Idaho, at an elevation of
Stephanite tetrahedrite, galena, sphalerite and pyrite. Localities which have yielded good crystallized specimens are Freiberg and Gersdorf near Rosswein in Saxony, Chañarcillo in Chile, and exceptionally Cornwall. In the Comstock lode in Nevada massive stephanite and argentite are important ores of silver. Stephanite Stephanite is a silver antimony sulfosalt mineral with formula: AgSbS It is composed of 68.8% silver, and sometimes is of importance as an ore of this metal. Under the name Schwarzerz it was mentioned by Georgius Agricola in 1546, and it has been variously known as "black silver ore" (German "Schwarzgultigerz"), brittle silver-ore ("Sprödglanzerz"), etc. The name stephanite