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Millerite

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Locality: 
Zollverein Mine, Essen, North Rhine - Westphalia, Germany
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
6.2 × 4.2 × 3.6 cm
Description

Superb specimen of jackstraw clusters of shiny iridiscent millerite crystals with minor tarnished chalcopyrite.

The site closed in 1987.

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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