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Millerite

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Description
Locality: 
US Highway 27 Roadcut, Halls Gap, Lincoln County, Kentucky, United States of America
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
2.1 × 1.7 × 0.8 cm
Description

Spray groups and isolated brassy, needle millerite crystals in a quartz-lined geode. Rich aesthetic sample from the classic Halls Gap millerite in Kentucky.

Old time specimen that was acquired at the Tucson Show in 1984 by Dr. Gerard Vogel. Ex Gerard Vogel collection.

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

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