Millerite on Calcite in Geode

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...

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Product details

Species

Millerite, Calcite

SizeSmall Cabinet

Dimensions6.0 x 4.5 x 3.6 cm

Locality

USA, Wisconsin, Estabrook Park

Added on10/23/2024

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Known provenance

2024/08