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4JG8 - Millerite - $ 350 SOLD Halls Gap, Lincoln Co., Kentucky (NOW CLOSED TO COLLECTING!) miniature, 3.8 x 2.5 x 1.9 cm
One is often lucky to find even a few Millerite crystals in a geode or vug. Maybe a nice spray if the gods are looking favorably on you...Here you have a geode absolutely packed with lustrous and perfect needles and a rare associated pyrite. This is a rare killer specimen for the species and what is more, it can be safely mailed as the crystals are protected in a natural geode. I used to collect here as a kid, before the government sealed access due to the danger of collecting under an increasingly undercut overhang alongside a state freeway (Those louts! go figure!). It ain't easy, I can tell you, and the actual nickel-rich layer of rock containing the millerite-bearing geodes was a you-know-what to work at, laying on your back tapping at the ceiling of the cut with 20 feet of overburden above you. I have great respect for Neal Pfaff and Bill McKenzie who collected so much of it. Most of what I found were empty geodes!
D06-24 - Millerite on Calcite in geode - $ 1800 SOLD Estabrook Park, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA small cabinet, 6 x 4.5 x 3.6 cm
This specimen features a geode vug with colorless, lustrous, calcite crystals hosting a diverging spray of lustrous, brassy, millerite crystals to an inch cm in length. Note that the millerite from here is more cylindrcal and stout in form, compared to the hairy wires from Kentucky. This is as large a specimen as I have seen for the locality on the market in some time. I had the good fortune to find it in a French collection a month ago, and repatriated it. An aesthetic and impressive millerite, to be sure! These came out in the 1960s from a small locality in the middle of a city park, and it is not possible to colelct there any more. Specimens of this quality are VERY SCARCE. Actually, I am told it really was sort of a nightime thing in the past, too...
JWHITE-39 - Millerite - $ 150 SOLD Friedrich Mine, Wissen, Siegerland, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany thumbnail, 2.1 x 1.2 x 1.2 cm ex. John White
A superb, showy thumbnail of robust millerite crystals from this very classic, old locale. Certainly a specimen from the 1800s! This comes with original label from the Smithsonian Institution numbered B1602 - an early specimen from the noted collection of Carl Bosch.
K295 - Millerite - $ 900 SOLD Agnew Mine, Agnew, Western Australia small cabinet, 5.7 x 4.1 x 3.0 cm ex. Charlie Key
A relatively aesthetic specimen of lamellar growth millerite which here is an attractive spray but is normally seen just forming in layers at this classic and now defunct nickel mine. The millerite completely filled cracks in the rock to form thick layers of parallel-grown acicular crystals . Rarely, as here, we see terminated crystals in a rolling crust atop, though the side view is simply more pretty! It is very bright and golden-colored, and totally unique for millerite occurences. I have not seen such a good piece out there in years.
K331 - Millerite - $ 3000 SOLD Agnew Mine, Agnew, Western Australia small cabinet, 6.3 x 4.4 x 3.4 cm ex. Charlie Key
A radial spray of REAL millerite crystals with REAL terminations, almost unheard of for the locality!!! This is a 3-dimensional, dramatic specimen of solid millerite with a heft to it. Charlie loved these things and stashed them away when he foudn one for sale, apparently. This is perhaps the best of them, for my tastes, with the individual well-terminated crystals shooting out and curving around the top of the specimen as they do.
LTH-40 - Millerite - $ 175 SOLD Thompson Open Pit, Thompson, Manitoba, Canada thumbnail, 2.3 x 2 x 1.2 cm ex. Martin Lewadny
A VERY rich specimen of the rare mineral Millerite, with the display face covered with dense, velvety acicular balls of a deep, brassy green. The largest of these is 1.2 cm across. You can see the golden sheen of the crystals along the tips of these radial clusters. A very fine specimen for the locality and the find, as Marty had much of this find when it came out and kept this, the best thumbnail he acquired, for himself (this wsa in the mid to late 1990s)
LW110 - Millerite - $ 600 Halls Gap Road Cut, Lincoln County, Kentucky, USA miniature, 4.6 x 3.7 x 3.5 cm ex. Martin Lewadny
Spectacular example of these delicate metallic needles from one of the world’s premier localities. These lustrous Millerite needles are amazingly abundant in the limestone geode, seemingly filling it up, but in a very attractive way, and reach an incredible 3 cm in length! This location is now closed, and it is no exaggeration to say you will not easily find a Millerite this good again for sale in the future.
LW9 - Millerite - $ 950 SOLD Thompson Pit, Thompson, Manitoba, Canada small cabinet, 8.7 x 6 x 5 cm ex. Martin Lewadny
A large , VERY rich specimen of the rare nickel mineral Millerite, with the display face covered with dense, velvety acicular crystals of a deep brassy green. The golden sheen of the crystals is prominent, attractive, and it accents the radial growth beautifully. Fine specimen! Marty was the source of many of the best of these specimens over the years they came out in the late 90s, and this is one he obviously chose to keep , given its quality and unusual 3-dimensionality (most are flat plates).
MD-112491 - Millerite, Quartz - - Archived US 27 roadcut, Halls Gap, Lincoln Co., Kentucky, USA miniature, 4.6 x 3.9 x 3.3 cm
This is a very rich example of millerite nestled within a protected cavity in a quartz geode. This is a hard-to-collect locality (I know, i collected there as a kid!), and geodes this full and this wel filled are just rare as can be. The location is a roadcut along a major state highway, now completely off-limits to collectors. This particular specimen has millerite poking out all sides, and is delicate to mail, so best sold for hand-delivery at some time as possible. 4.6 x 3.9 x 3.3 cm
MD-112910 - Millerite - - Archived Perseverance Mine, Agnew, Leinster, Leonora Shire, Goldfields-Esperance region, Western Australia, Australia small cabinet, 5.7 x 4.1 x 3.0 cm
A relatively aesthetic specimen of lamellar growth millerite which here is an attractive spray but is normally seen just forming in layers at this classic and now defunct nickel mine. The millerite completely filled cracks in the rock to form thick layers of parallel-grown acicular crystals . Rarely, as here, we see terminated crystals in a rolling crust atop, though the side view is simply more pretty! It is very bright and golden-colored, and totally unique for millerite occurences. I have not seen such a good piece out there in years. 5.7 x 4.1 x 3.0 cm
MD-114174 - Millerite - - Archived Perseverance Mine, Agnew, Leinster, Leonora Shire, Goldfields-Esperance region, Western Australia, Australia small cabinet, 6.3 x 4.4 x 3.4 cm
A radial spray of REAL millerite crystals with REAL terminations, almost unheard of for the locality!!! This is a 3-dimensional, dramatic specimen of solid millerite with a heft to it. Charlie loved these things and stashed them away when he foudn one for sale, apparently. This is perhaps the best of them, for my tastes, with the individual well-terminated crystals shooting out and curving around the top of the specimen as they do. 6.3 x 4.4 x 3.4 cm
MD-117558 - Millerite - - Archived Perseverance Mine, Agnew, Leinster, Leonora Shire, Goldfields-Esperance region, Western Australia, Australia cabinet, 11 x 10.5 x 7 cm.
11 x 10.5 x 7 cm. Radiant clusters of brilliant metallic golden Millerite needles growing in dense clusters with rounded terminations. The needles are about 2.7 cm, and you never find them in such dense and attractive habits. Quite an amazing specimen for the species. This is an old classic locality, and few pieces turn up on today’s market. CharlieKey loved it and had an Aussie millerite suite in the drawers. The specimen is solid millerite with some lamellar crystals visible on sides, and the top completely made up of the merged terminations of such intergrown crystals. Minute microcrystalline bright green specks of another mineral (gaspeite?) are present.
MD-117746 - Millerite - - Archived Perseverance Mine, Agnew, Leinster, Leonora Shire, Goldfields-Esperance region, Western Australia, Australia cabinet, 13.4 x 7.5 x 6.0 cm.
13.4 x 7.5 x 6.0 cm. A huge specimen of lamellar growth millerite forming in layers at this classic and now defunct nickel mine. The millerite completely filled cracks in the rock to form thick layers of parallel-grown acicular crystals. It is very bright and golden-colored, and totally unique for millerite occurrences. I have not seen such a large piece out there in years. It weighs in at 2 pounds, or 835 grams! And, it’s completely crystallized all around.
MD-118479 - Millerite - - Archived Pafuri nickel deposit, Mabilikewe Hill, Limpopo Province, South Africa cabinet, 9.6 x 6.7 x 5.3 cm.
9.6 x 6.7 x 5.3 cm. A very showy, 5.0 cm radial spray of lustrous, brassy, millerite needles with iridescent tarnish attractively set in quartz-rich matrix from a classic South African locality - the Pafuri nickel deposit. Old-time, choice material. Ex. J. Cilen and George Elling Collections.
MD-119623 - Millerite, Calcite, Quartz - - Archived Ollie, Keokuk Co., Iowa, USA large cabinet, 15.2 x 9.4 x 8.0 cm.
15.2 x 9.4 x 8.0 cm. A UNIQUE and DAMATIC vertical LARGE CABINET millerite specimen from the famous Ollie, Iowa locality. Three stacked vugs, the top one hidden, stand out on the front of the limestone matrix, which is capped by highly lustrous, blocky calcite. The lower and upper vugs host soft, hair-like needles of millerite. The lower vug is 2.9 x 2.5 cm. The two lower vugs are lined with glassy quartz crystals. It’s weird, that the middle vug has no millerite, except in a small vug just at the top of it. This is choice material from this famous locality, probably collected in the 1960s or 70s and is from the Gary Hansen Collection. The Hansen’s Hut label dates the piece to his time period.
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