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Millerite from
Cessford Quarry, Biggsville, Henderson County, Illinois, USA


Locality type:Quarry
Classification
Species:Millerite
Formula:NiS
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Calcite3 photos of Millerite associated with Calcite at this locality.
Quartz2 photos of Millerite associated with Quartz at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Millerite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Cessford Quarry, Biggsville, Henderson County, Illinois, USA
Photo GalleryView Gallery (5 photos)
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:286961
Long-form Identifier:1:3:286961:2
GUID (UUID V4):007ab5ea-af86-4b41-859f-77216badca02
Nearest other occurrences of Millerite
0.1km (0.0 miles) Biggsville Quarry Cessford Construction, Henderson County, Illinois, USA
9.4km (5.8 miles) Media Quarry, Media Township, Henderson County, Illinois, USA
29.2km (18.2 miles) Mediapolis (Mediopolis), Des Moines County, Iowa, USA
32.5km (20.2 miles) Cessford Quarry, Dallas City, Hancock County, Illinois, USA
59.6km (37.1 miles) O'Neal Quarry, Plymouth, Hancock County, Illinois, USA
64.0km (39.8 miles) Hamilton, Hancock County, Illinois, USA
65.7km (40.8 miles) Keokuk Dam, Lee County, Iowa, USA
66.0km (41.0 miles) Gray Quarry, Hamilton, Hancock County, Illinois, USA
66.4km (41.2 miles) Keokuk, Lee County, Iowa, USA
73.0km (45.3 miles) St. Francisville, Clark County, Missouri, USA
References
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Journal (issue)
Cooper Nottingham, England Anthony R. Kampf L.A. County Mus. of Nat. Hist. Los Angeles, CA Joseph A. Mandarino...397 by I. V. Pekov The Minerals of West-Central Illinois . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....Garvin & G. Tribbey The minerals of the Hunting Hill quarry, Rockville, Maryland . . . . . . . . . . . . ....Telephone: 719-598-1233 g{x `|ÇxÜtÄá Éy West-Central Illinois Paul L. Garvin Department of Geology Cornell College...1430 N. Broad Galesburg, Illinois 61401 Well-crystallized, varicolored Illinois fluorite and associated
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Sphalerite and calcite, 5 cm across, Denton mine, Hardin County. Ross Lillie specimen. +!.+!+%% 34!2+ +./8 ...chalcopyrite, and sphalerite, 12.7 cm high, Hardin County. Marv Rausch specimen. 3(%,"9 -!#/50). /5 ....3/. 0/0% (!2$). -!33!# 05,!3+) %8 !. $% 2 Illinois Mineral Locality Index 7)..%"!'/ /',% #!22/...(above). Map showing the counties in Illinois, courtesy the Illinois Geological Survey.   96*2: 405...at 19:53 09 October 2014 T he bedrock under Illinois is predominantly composed of Paleozoic sedimentary
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nickel sulfide [NiS] called millerite (see Pick & Pack October 2014). Now millerite is not a rare mineral;...essentially from Michigan through Kentucky. And, the millerite crystals were found encased in concretions/geodes...my way of counting Jun 2020 Fig. 6: Radiating millerite crystals on crystalline calcite. Collected “near...Length of “whiskers” ~4 mm. Photo: M. Nelson Millerite is a fascinating mineral, at least to an old paleontologist...tarnish to an iridescent “black.” The clusters of millerite in concretions often appear, at least to me, to
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Mineral Trails Lakes States Wisconsin, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, by June Culp Zeitner $5.95 Gem...knowledge and enjoyment of this great owners, mine and quarry operators and science by collecting. Thanks too...new species of fossils have been collected in Illinois, Indiana, and Michigan. Dow Chemical has reported... Michigan and Huron virtually surrounding it. Illinois and Indiana are bordered in part by Lake Michigan...and the Keweenaw peninsula of Michigan. Southern Illinois, southern Indiana and southern Ohio have milder
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MineralogicalRecord.com I IIMORIITE-(Y) EUROPE FRANCE Trimouns quarry, Luzenac, Ariege. Operated for talc since the beginning...beginning of the 20th century, the Trimouns quarry became well known to collectors around 1990 for the...long (Marty, 2004 ). AFRICA widely in Litchfield County, where good crystals were taken from quartz veins...region (Brunet, I 977b ). NEW YORK Amity, Orange County. At many isolated collected sites between the towns...Litchfield County. Ilmenite masses and crystals from somewhere near Washington, Litchfield County, were described
Report (volume)
Silicates and their reaction energies University of Illinois collection: Gruner, J. W., 1. Wanless, H. R. ...described. Div. Mines, 1; Jenkins, O. P., Choctaw County, Highway 17 area: 3. Toulmin, L. D., Jr., 3. Minor:...Piedmont area: Baker, J., 1. Idaho: Prater, L. S., 2. Illinois, limestones, Pennsylvanian Economic geology. Barite:...analysis: KelH. D., 5. ler, W. D., 3. Talladega County, hematiteOklahoma, potash agstone, granite magnetite...ground water: Powham, C. E. ell, W. J., 4. Marengo County: Newton, J. G., 1. Core-drilling program, ChattanooMica:
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Montrose County, uranium-vanadium deposits: Weeks, A. D., 13R. ORGANIZATION OF THE INDEX ILLINOIS. Economic...Iron, Cook County, titaniferous magnetite: Grout, F. F., 5. IRON. Minnesota, Cook County, titaniferous...Journal. Birmingham, Ala. Ala. Geol. Survey Bull.; County Rept.; Inf. Ser.; Map; Mus. Paper; Special Rept...Rept. Alabama Geological Survey Bulletin; County Report; Information Series; Map; Museum Papers; Special...Ibis. London. Idaho Bur. Mines and Geology Bull.; County Rept; Inf. Circ.; Mineral Res. 16 SERIALS Kept;
 
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