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Millerite

Ex Robert Jacob Collection
Classic Locality

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Description
Locality: 
Wheal Sparnon, Redruth, Cornwall, United Kingdom
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
4 × 2.5 × 2.6 cm
Description

A super fine specimen of acicular millerite on typically matrix. The metallic, golden needles are richly perched in a vug of tiny quartz crystals. This is a very good and rare item from a classic Cornish locality and exceeding hard to get nowadays.

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
Wendel Minerals

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