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Millerite & Siegenite

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Millerite & Siegenite

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Description
Locality: 
Eugenia Mine, Bellmunt del Priorat, Tarragona, Catalonia, Spain
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
2 × 2.2 × 1.6 cm
Description

Very aesthetic millerite needles and fans on a matrix of etched calcite with very minor siegenite.

Beautiful little specimen!

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

Siegenite

Formula: 
CoNi2S4
Strunz: 
2.DA.05
Hardness: 
4.5 - 5.5
Type Locality: 
Stahlberg Mine (Schwabengrube), Müsen, Siegerland, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
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