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Millerite

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Description
Locality: 
Petersbach Mine, Eichelhardt, Altenkirchen, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
5 × 5 × 4.2 cm
Description

An excellent classic millerite specimen from the Siegerland with a very rich coverage of bright bronze metallic prismatic to acicular millerite crystals all around the matrix.

Excellent and nowadays very hard find. Comes from my own collection.

Mineral Data
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Millerite

Formula: 
NiS
Strunz: 
2.CC.20
Crystal System: 
Trigonal
Hardness: 
3.0 - 3.5
Type Locality: 
Jáchymov (St Joachimsthal), Jáchymov District (St Joachimsthal), Krušné Hory Mts (Erzgebirge), Karlovy Vary Region, Bohemia (Böhmen; Boehmen), Czech Republic
Cartils Minerals

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