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Millerite

ex Klaus Schinke senior
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Description
Locality: 
Pfannenberger Einigkeit Mine, Salchendorf, Neunkirchen, Arnsberg, North Rhine - Westphalia, Germany
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
1.4 × 1.4 × 1.2 cm
Description

Rich specimen with hair-like, dull brass yellow millerite crystal groups.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

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