Mineral Specimens with Millerite

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MD-178901 - Millerite, Calcite, Quartz - - Archived
Ollie, Keokuk Co., Iowa, USA
small cabinet, 7.0 x 4.5 x 4.3 cm.
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7.0 x 4.5 x 4.3 cm. A fine millerite specimen from the famed limestone quarries of Ollie, Iowa. A 6.0 x 2.0 cm sparkly, quartz-lined vug on snow-white limestone matrix is filled with very soft to the touch, hair-like millerite needles. Needles reach 2.0 cm on this excellent piece. Ex. George Feist Collection.

MD-179875 - Millerite - - Archived
Ollie, Keokuk Co., Iowa, USA
small cabinet, 9.4 x 5.6 x 1.7 cm.
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9.4 x 5.6 x 1.7 cm. A 4.0 cm across vug in white limestone is the host for a matted carpet of fibrous, taupe colored millerite. Ex. Martin Zinn Collection.

MD-179887 - Millerite - - Archived
Halls Gap, Lincoln Co., Kentucky, USA
small cabinet, 7 x 4 x 3.1 cm.
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7 x 4 x 3.1 cm. A matrix-bound millerite geode, measuring 3.5 cm across. It is just filled with beautiful multicolored, iridescent millerite in acicular crystals to several centimeters. Ex. Martin Zinn Collection.

MD-180033 - Millerite - - Archived
Halls Gap, Lincoln Co., Kentucky, USA
small cabinet, 5.6 x 4.3 x 1.5 cm.
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5.6 x 4.3 x 1.5 cm. A 2.7-cm vug that is filled to brim with sharp, brilliantly lustrous crystals of this beautiful nickel-species. Ex. Martin Zinn Collection.

MD-180856 - Millerite - - Archived
Perseverance Mine, Agnew, Leinster, Leonora Shire, Goldfields-Esperance region, Western Australia, Australia
small cabinet, 5.2 x 4.2 x 0.7 cm.
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5.2 x 4.2 x 0.7 cm. An outstanding group of acicular balls (up to 9 mm) of very fine golden-brown Millerite comprising a beautiful and delicate crust. The Millerite has a good sheen from the lustrous needles. Ex. Charlie Key.

MD-187700 - Millerite, Pyrite (Var: Arsenian Pyrite) - - Archived
Meikle Mine, Bootstrap District, Elko Co., Nevada, USA
small cabinet, 7.3 x 5.3 x 4.0 cm.
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7.3 x 5.3 x 4.0 cm. Radiating clusters of splendent, brassy millerite needles encircle a melted-look nodule of arsenian pyrite on this superb and unusual specimen from the famous Meikle Mine of Nevada. The millerite clusters look like a wreath or tiara on the pyrite. The exact mine location is the 41-20 Heading of the Griffin Ore Body.

MD-190542 - Millerite - - Archived
St Andreasberg, St Andreasberg District, Harz Mts, Lower Saxony, Germany
cabinet, 10.0 x 7.4 x 4.0 cm.
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10.0 x 7.4 x 4.0 cm. An extremely scarce example of millerite from this old silver mining district, where it was always exceedingly rare. The specimen consists of thin vein-like millerite interspersed between calcite, in massive calcite.

MD-190700 - Millerite - - Archived
St Andreasberg, St Andreasberg District, Harz Mts, Lower Saxony, Germany
small cabinet, 8.0 x 7.6 x 4.4 cm.
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8.0 x 7.6 x 4.4 cm. This is a rare sample of millerite from the Harz, with what seem to be rich nodular masses of microcrystals embedded in calcite, as well as some elongated plates within the calcite.

MD-20930 - Millerite - - Archived
Halls Gap, Lincoln Co., Kentucky, USA
miniature, 3.8 x 2.5 x 1.9 cm
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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! 3.8 x 2.5 x 1.9 cm

MD-219078 - Millerite - - Archived
Thompson Mine (Thompson T-1 Mine; Thompson Open pit), Moab-Setting Lakes area, Thompson Nickel Belt, Manitoba, Canada
small cabinet, 6.4 x 5.8 x 4.7 cm.
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6.4 x 5.8 x 4.7 cm. A spectacular, two-sided vug nearly filled to closing with lustrous, brassy, acicular millerite needles from the well-known Thompson Mine in Manitoba, Canada. This is classic, superb material from the locality and is from the Marty Lewadny Collection of Winnipeg, Canada.

MD-219322 - Millerite, Chalcopyrite - - Archived
Strathcona Mine, Levack, Sudbury District, Ontario, Canada
miniature, 4.4 x 3.8 x 1.8 cm.
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4.4 x 3.8 x 1.8 cm. You probably think of millerite (nickel sulfide) in its rare crystalline (acicular) form, as that is the form it takes in most collector specimens. But here, it appears as a silvery vein running through a chunk of gaudy golden and purple chalcopyrite. Ex. Dr. Gunter Grundmann Collection.

MD-223871 - Millerite - - Archived
Estabrook Park (Berthlet; North Milwaukee; Cementville; Lincoln Park; Capitol Drive; Washington Street Bridge; Humbolt Street Bridge), Milwaukee, Milwaukee Co., Wisconsin, USA
thumbnail, 2.1 x 1.9 x 1.8 cm.
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2.1 x 1.9 x 1.8 cm. An exceptional and rare piece from a long extinct Milwaukee, Wisconsin locale and honestly from the Rob Lavinsky childhood mineral collection (a long time ago, bought when I was too young to drive a car). A diverging spray of bright, golden millerite needles to 1.8 cm are embedded in calcite within a fossilized mollusk shell. This was one of the treasures of my childhood collection.

MD-225174 - Millerite - - Archived
Sterling Mine (Old Sterling Mine), Antwerp, St Lawrence Co., New York, USA
small cabinet, 7.4 x 6.8 x 2.3 cm.
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7.4 x 6.8 x 2.3 cm. A classic old-time specimen from the Dan Ehrling Collection, he got it by exchange of African specimens to the University of Chicago in the 1960s and 1970s. This is a protected pocket in tough matrix, featuring a 1.2 cm spray of millerite crystals on siderite druse. Classic for the locale.

MD-232901 - Millerite, Quartz - - Archived
US 27 roadcut, Halls Gap, Lincoln Co., Kentucky, USA
miniature, 4.0 x 3.5 x 3.0 cm.
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4.0 x 3.5 x 3.0 cm. This is a very nice miniature of classic Halls Gap millerite, from a now-inaccessible location closed to further collecting visits (though I got there as a kid, before they closed it off). This specimen features a very rich nest of acicular millerite crystals in a quartz- lined geode, typical for the locality (when digging, you would look for geodes in slightly green, or nickel-rich, rock layers). Bill obtained this specimen from the Carlton Davis collection and I can say this is the first millerite specimen I ever saw, when Carl taught me about minerals in the mid-1980s. Ex. Bill Pinch and Carlton Davis Collections.

MD-232905 - Millerite - - Archived
Friedrich Mine, Schönstein, Wissen, Siegerland, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
thumbnail, 1.7 x 1.5 x 1.0 cm.
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1.7 x 1.5 x 1.0 cm. A small specimen, but a significant locality piece for the brilliant lustre and rarity of the material on the market today. Most of these would date to the 1800s, and a good one is hard to obtain. Ex. Bill Pinch Collection.


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