Millerite

Millerite in geode

Origin: Hall's Gap, Kentucky, USA

Sample size: 1.4 cm

 

  

Origin: Bay Port quarry, Bay Port, Huron Co., Michigan, USA

Sample size: about 2 cm

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Origin: Wallace Stone quarry, Bayport, Michigan, U.S.A.

Sample size: 2 x 2 x 1 cm, geode with hair-like brassy crystals

 

  

Gold and massive with nice cleavage. The violarite is in small granular crystals of the same goldish colour.

  

Massive, crystalline brassy millerite associated with massive, granular violarite

Origin: Marbridge #2, LaMotte twp, NW Quebec, Canada

Ex. Erling Collection

Sample size: 5 x 3.5 x 4.5 cm (top), 8 x 5 x 3 cm (bottom)

 

brassy, massive, crystalline Millerite showing perfect cleavage. Yes Millerite has cleavage, but you never see it in its typically acicular habit. Associated with chalcopyrite.

Origin: Strathcona mine, Levack Township, Ontario, Canada

Sample size: 3 x 3 x 1 cm

 

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Origin: Kladno, Bohemia, Czech Republic

Owner: Lou Perloff

Microscopic image

 

 

Millerite on quartz

Origin: Hall's Gap, Lincoln Co., Kentucky, U.S.A.

Owner: Lou Perloff

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Millerite needles on siderite

Origin: Kladno, Bohemia, Czech Republic

Picture height: 14 mm

Sample owner: W.R. Moorer

 

 

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Origin: Agnew Mine, Agnew, Western Australia, Australia

Sample size: 8 x 5 x 2.5 cm

 

  

Origin: Hall's Gap Road Cut, Lincoln County, Kentucky, U.S.A.

Sample size: 4 x 4 x 2 cm

 

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geode half lined with quartz crystals and partly filled with millerite

Origin: Hall's Gap, Kentucky, U.S.A.

Sample size: 4.5 x 4 x 1 cm

 

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