Nickel-skutterudite

  
 
Origin: Gowganda, Ontario, Canada
Erling Collection
Sample size: miniature, crystals to 7 mm (top), small cabinet, crystals to 3 mm (bottom)
 
  
Brassy or silvery very lustrous cubic crystals to 1 mm in clusters.
Origin: Schlema, Erzgebirge, Saxony, Germany
Ex. DeVito collection
Sample size: 5 x 4 x 4 cm
 
  
Origin: Schneeberg, Saxony, Germany
Ex. Kidwell collection
Sample size: 6 x 5 x 3 cm
 
Fabulous sawed and polished specimen with a mirror like polish.
Origin: Schnepfenbüsch Mine, Bauhaus, Richelsdorf District, Hesse, Germany
Ex. Westenberger collection
Sample size: 8 x 6 x 2 cm
 

Photo courtesy of: 

Tom Loomis

Dakota Matrix Minerals

 

  
  
Origin: Schneeberg, Saxony, Germany
Ex. Kevin Conroy collection (KC Minerals)
Sample size: 3.3 x 2.4 x 2 cm
 

Photo courtesy of: 

John Veevaert, Trinity Mineral Co

Trinityminerals.com

 

  
Origin: Schneeberg, Saxony, Germany
Ex. Don Belsher, Phetteplace collections
Sample size: 4.2 x 3.7 x 4.8 cm
 

Photo courtesy of: 

Dan Weinrich

Dealer in fine mineral specimens

 

  
Origin: Schneeberg, Saxony, Germany
Sample size: 4.5 x 3.5 x 3.2 cm
 

Photo courtesy of: 

Rob Lavinsky

The Arkenstone

 

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