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Millerite

Ex Dr. Krantz, Bonn, Germany
With Antique Label

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Description
Locality: 
St Andreasberg, Goslar, Lower Saxony, Germany
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
4 × 3 × 3.5 cm
Weight: 
47.00gr
Description

Millerite specimens are very rare from the historic silver mines at St Andreasberg and thus hard to get. This specimen features jumbled, minute, brassy needles of millerite in a small vug in calcite ("auf Kalkspath" as described on the label).

From old Dr. Krantz stock, comes with nice antique label dated 19th century!

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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