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Millerite

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Locality: 
Hendrik & Emma Mine, Brunssum, Limburg, Netherlands
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
3.5 × 3 × 2.2 cm
Description

This specimen comes from the Netherlands a country very poor in minerals. With just three active limestone quarries and some old mine dumps there are only a two or three mineral collecting sites and really good specimens from the Netherlands are scarce.
The best locality in the Netherlands are the combined dumps of the former Emma coalmine and Hendrik coalmine in Brunssum.
The two rarest species from the Netherlands are siegenite and millerite and this specimen with millerite associated with chalcopyrite is a very good and beautiful example.

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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