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Estabrook Park, Milwaukee, Milwaukee County, Wisconsin, USA
This specimen features a geode vug with colorless, lustrous, calcite crystals, to 1.0 cm across, hosting two diverging sprays of lustrous, brassy, millerite, to 3.5 cm in length. These came out in the 1960s. 4.4 x 3.1 x 2 cm
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Estabrook Park, Milwaukee, Milwaukee County, Wisconsin, USA
Millerite crystals in a small vug of calcite. Specimen is from the collection of the Smithsonian Institute #103607 (1973). Scale at bottom of image is an inch with a rule at one cm.
© Rock Currier
Estabrook Park, Milwaukee, Milwaukee County, Wisconsin, USA
Millerite spray in a vug of calcite. Scale at bottom of image is an inch with a rule at one cm.
© Rock Currier
Estabrook Park, Milwaukee, Milwaukee County, Wisconsin, USA
Millerite and calcite. Scale at bottom of image is an inch with a rule at one cm.
© Rock Currier
Estabrook Park, Milwaukee, Milwaukee County, Wisconsin, USA
Field width: 2.8 cm. P Haas photograph and collection (no. 23-104), ex J Chervet collection (no. 6146).
© Peter Haas
Estabrook Park, Milwaukee, Milwaukee County, Wisconsin, USA
6 x 4.5 x 3.6 cm. Calcite crystals hosting a diverging spray of lustrous, brassy millerite crystals to an inch in length. These came out in the 1960s.
© Rob Lavinsky & irocks.com
Estabrook Park, Milwaukee, Milwaukee County, Wisconsin, USA
4.3 x 3.3 x 2.7 (largest). Two EXCEPTIONAL pieces from a LONG EXTINCT Milwaukee, Wisconsin locale of bright, brassy millerite needles in and on limestone matrix. The showy piece features a 1.8 cm wide, calcite-lined vug with a gorgeous spray of lustrous miilerite needles. The second piece has a 1.3 cm tall spray of bright millerite needles ...
© Rob Lavinsky & irocks.com
Estabrook Park, Milwaukee, Milwaukee County, Wisconsin, USA
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. ...
© Rob Lavinsky & irocks.com
Estabrook Park, Milwaukee, Milwaukee County, Wisconsin, USA
Honessite alteration of millerite fibers on calcite with sphalerite. Former B. Bagowski collection, who published the best description of this locality in 1940.
Estabrook Park, Milwaukee, Milwaukee County, Wisconsin, USA
Twinned sphalerite crystal with calcite in vug in Devonian limestone. Collected by B. Bagrowski, probably between 1936 and 1940. Bagrowski wrote the best published description of the locality - see reference section.
Estabrook Park, Milwaukee, Milwaukee County, Wisconsin, USA
4.5 x 3.7 x 2.4 cm. A very fine combination specimen from an extinct Milwaukee locale. A beautiful spray of lustrous, brassy millerite needles to 2.7 cm is aesthetically set on the side of a vug filled with glassy, translucent, modified calcite scalenohedrons. These came out in the 1960s. Ex. Robert Whitmore Collection.
© Rob Lavinsky & irocks.com
Estabrook Park, Milwaukee, Milwaukee County, Wisconsin, USA
5.6 x 4.0 x 3.6 cm. A rarity from the USA. Nestled aesthetically in the calcite-lined geode is a divergent, acicular spray of millerite crystals, to 2 cm in length. The lustrous, golden crystals of millerite are associated with lustrous and translucent, colorless calcite crystals, to 1.4 cm in length. This is a classic association, and very rarely ...
© Rob Lavinsky & irocks.com
Estabrook Park, Milwaukee, Milwaukee County, Wisconsin, USA
4.5 x 3.7 x 2.4 cm. A very fine combination specimen from an extinct Milwaukee locale. A beautiful spray of lustrous, brassy millerite needles to 2.7 cm is aesthetically set on the side of a vug filled with glassy, translucent, modified calcite scalenohedrons. These came out in the 1960s. Ex. Robert Whitmore Collection.
© Rob Lavinsky & irocks.com
Estabrook Park, Milwaukee, Milwaukee County, Wisconsin, USA
Millerite in calcite, 20 mm.
Estabrook Park, Milwaukee, Milwaukee County, Wisconsin, USA
1.8 x 0.6 x 0.5 cm. A beautiful green group of "needle"-like crystals of millerite from the Estabrook Park locality which are outcrops of dolostones and old quarries along Milwaukee River. You can't get these anymore since the site is now a park and closed off to collectors. A lovely little thumbnail specimen with a small amount of matrix and a ...
© Rob Lavinsky & irocks.com
Estabrook Park, Milwaukee, Milwaukee County, Wisconsin, USA
6.6 x 5.0 x 4.8 cm. A 2.0 cm spray of splendent, brassy millerite needles is aesthetically set with nail-head spar calcite crystals on the end of the vuggy limestone matrix on this showy and excellent combination specimen from an extinct Milwaukee locale. One side of the piece is very vuggy and is filled with many more calcite crystals and some ...
© Rob Lavinsky & irocks.com
Estabrook Park, Milwaukee, Milwaukee County, Wisconsin, USA
6.3 x 4.2 x 3.3 cm. Nestled aesthetically in a limestone vug with colorless calcite rhombs, to 5 mm across, is a diverging spray of acicular, lustrous, brassy colored milllerite crystals measuring 2 cm in length. These were only collected a few times in what is now a city park in Milwaukee and are super Midwest classics that are almost never ...
© Rob Lavinsky & irocks.com
Estabrook Park, Milwaukee, Milwaukee County, Wisconsin, USA
5.6 x 4.0 x 3.6 cm. A rarity from the USA. Nestled aesthetically in the calcite-lined geode is a divergent, acicular spray of millerite crystals, to 2 cm in length. The lustrous, golden crystals of millerite are associated with lustrous and translucent, colorless calcite crystals, to 1.4 cm in length. This is a classic association, and very rarely ...
© Rob Lavinsky & irocks.com
Estabrook Park, Milwaukee, Milwaukee County, Wisconsin, USA
6.6 x 5.0 x 4.8 cm. A 2.0 cm spray of splendent, brassy millerite needles is aesthetically set with nail-head spar calcite crystals on the end of the vuggy limestone matrix on this showy and excellent combination specimen from an extinct Milwaukee locale. One side of the piece is very vuggy and is filled with many more calcite crystals and some ...
© Rob Lavinsky & irocks.com
Estabrook Park, Milwaukee, Milwaukee County, Wisconsin, USA
6.6 x 5.0 x 4.8 cm. A 2.0 cm spray of splendent, brassy millerite needles is aesthetically set with nail-head spar calcite crystals on the end of the vuggy limestone matrix on this showy and excellent combination specimen from an extinct Milwaukee locale. One side of the piece is very vuggy and is filled with many more calcite crystals and some ...
© Rob Lavinsky & irocks.com
Estabrook Park, Milwaukee, Milwaukee County, Wisconsin, USA
1.8 x 0.6 x 0.5 cm. A beautiful green group of "needle"-like crystals of millerite from the Estabrook Park locality which are outcrops of dolostones and old quarries along Milwaukee River. You can't get these anymore since the site is now a park and closed off to collectors. A lovely little thumbnail specimen with a small amount of matrix and a ...
© Rob Lavinsky & irocks.com
Estabrook Park, Milwaukee, Milwaukee County, Wisconsin, USA
Millerite from Wisconsin is one of the rarest USA classic metallic species. They are unobtainable except in old collections. This specimen features a protected spray of crystals, 2.5 cm tall, sitting in a vug in the matrix. It would be considered a larger specimen for the material, and unlike most it actually makes for a good display piece with ...
© Rob Lavinsky & iRocks.com
Estabrook Park, Milwaukee, Milwaukee County, Wisconsin, USA
1.8 x 0.6 x 0.5 cm. A beautiful green group of "needle"-like crystals of millerite from the Estabrook Park locality which are outcrops of dolostones and old quarries along Milwaukee River. You can't get these anymore since the site is now a park and closed off to collectors. A lovely little thumbnail specimen with a small amount of matrix and a ...
© Rob Lavinsky & irocks.com
Estabrook Park, Milwaukee, Milwaukee County, Wisconsin, USA
An old-time, American Midwest classic from early on in the building of Jack's equally classic collection. This exceptional thumbnail from Milwaukee, Wisconsin features a limestone vug filled with a gorgeous spray of bright and brassy millerite needles to 9 mm. Highly recognizable, and sought-after, millerites this good are almost never available ...
© Rob Lavinsky & MineralAuctions.com
Estabrook Park, Milwaukee, Milwaukee County, Wisconsin, USA
6.3 x 4.2 x 3.3 cm. Nestled aesthetically in a limestone vug with colorless calcite rhombs, to 5 mm across, is a diverging spray of acicular, lustrous, brassy colored milllerite crystals measuring 2 cm in length. These were only collected a few times in what is now a city park in Milwaukee and are super Midwest classics that are almost never ...
© Rob Lavinsky & irocks.com
Estabrook Park, Milwaukee, Milwaukee County, Wisconsin, USA
Millerite from Wisconsin is one of the rarest USA classic metallic species. They are unobtainable except in old collections. This specimen features a protected spray of crystals, 2.5 cm tall, sitting in a vug in the matrix. It would be considered a larger specimen for the material, and unlike most it actually makes for a good display piece with ...
© Rob Lavinsky & iRocks.com
Estabrook Park, Milwaukee, Milwaukee County, Wisconsin, USA
An old-time, American Midwest classic from early on in the building of Jack's equally classic collection. This exceptional thumbnail from Milwaukee, Wisconsin features a limestone vug filled with a gorgeous spray of bright and brassy millerite needles to 9 mm. Highly recognizable, and sought-after, millerites this good are almost never available ...
© Rob Lavinsky & MineralAuctions.com
Estabrook Park, Milwaukee, Milwaukee County, Wisconsin, USA
A sharp and colorful 1.6 cm spray of lustrous, brassy metallic millerite needles is aesthetically set in a calcite cleavage on the dolostone matrix on this classic thumbnail. This fine thumbnail is from long extinct quarries, that now lie within a park where collecting is prohibited. These were collected in the 1960s. Ex Bill and Anne Cook ...
© Rob Lavinsky & MineralAuctions.com
Estabrook Park, Milwaukee, Milwaukee County, Wisconsin, USA
Millerite from Wisconsin is one of the rarest USA classic metallic species. They are unobtainable except in old collections. This specimen features a protected spray of crystals, 2.5 cm tall, sitting in a vug in the matrix. It would be considered a larger specimen for the material, and unlike most it actually makes for a good display piece with ...
© Rob Lavinsky & iRocks.com
Estabrook Park, Milwaukee, Milwaukee County, Wisconsin, USA
Millerite from Wisconsin is one of the rarest USA classic metallic species. They are unobtainable except in old collections. This specimen features a protected spray of crystals, 2.5 cm tall, sitting in a vug in the matrix. It would be considered a larger specimen for the material, and unlike most it actually makes for a good display piece with ...
© Rob Lavinsky & iRocks.com
Estabrook Park, Milwaukee, Milwaukee County, Wisconsin, USA
Spray of millerite needles in calcite vug altering to homesite. In the collection of Eric and Carolyn Fritzsch #6093.
Estabrook Park, Milwaukee, Milwaukee County, Wisconsin, USA
An old-time, American Midwest classic from early on in the building of Jack's equally classic collection. This exceptional thumbnail from Milwaukee, Wisconsin features a limestone vug filled with a gorgeous spray of bright and brassy millerite needles to 9 mm. Highly recognizable, and sought-after, millerites this good are almost never available ...
© Rob Lavinsky & MineralAuctions.com
Estabrook Park, Milwaukee, Milwaukee County, Wisconsin, USA
This specimen features a geode vug with colorless, lustrous, calcite crystals, to 1.0 cm across, hosting two diverging sprays of lustrous, brassy, millerite, to 3.5 cm in length. These came out in the 1960s. 4.4 x 3.1 x 2 cm
© Rob Lavinsky & irocks.com
Estabrook Park, Milwaukee, Milwaukee County, Wisconsin, USA
Millerite crystals in a small vug of calcite. Specimen is from the collection of the Smithsonian Institute #103607 (1973). Scale at bottom of image is an inch with a rule at one cm.
© Rock Currier
Estabrook Park, Milwaukee, Milwaukee County, Wisconsin, USA
Millerite spray in a vug of calcite. Scale at bottom of image is an inch with a rule at one cm.
© Rock Currier
Estabrook Park, Milwaukee, Milwaukee County, Wisconsin, USA
Millerite and calcite. Scale at bottom of image is an inch with a rule at one cm.
© Rock Currier
Estabrook Park, Milwaukee, Milwaukee County, Wisconsin, USA
Field width: 2.8 cm. P Haas photograph and collection (no. 23-104), ex J Chervet collection (no. 6146).
© Peter Haas
Estabrook Park, Milwaukee, Milwaukee County, Wisconsin, USA
6 x 4.5 x 3.6 cm. Calcite crystals hosting a diverging spray of lustrous, brassy millerite crystals to an inch in length. These came out in the 1960s.
© Rob Lavinsky & irocks.com
Estabrook Park, Milwaukee, Milwaukee County, Wisconsin, USA
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. ...
© Rob Lavinsky & irocks.com
Estabrook Park, Milwaukee, Milwaukee County, Wisconsin, USA
4.3 x 3.3 x 2.7 (largest). Two EXCEPTIONAL pieces from a LONG EXTINCT Milwaukee, Wisconsin locale of bright, brassy millerite needles in and on limestone matrix. The showy piece features a 1.8 cm wide, calcite-lined vug with a gorgeous spray of lustrous miilerite needles. The second piece has a 1.3 cm tall spray of bright millerite needles ...
© Rob Lavinsky & irocks.com
Estabrook Park, Milwaukee, Milwaukee County, Wisconsin, USA
Honessite alteration of millerite fibers on calcite with sphalerite. Former B. Bagowski collection, who published the best description of this locality in 1940.
Estabrook Park, Milwaukee, Milwaukee County, Wisconsin, USA
Twinned sphalerite crystal with calcite in vug in Devonian limestone. Collected by B. Bagrowski, probably between 1936 and 1940. Bagrowski wrote the best published description of the locality - see reference section.
Estabrook Park, Milwaukee, Milwaukee County, Wisconsin, USA
4.5 x 3.7 x 2.4 cm. A very fine combination specimen from an extinct Milwaukee locale. A beautiful spray of lustrous, brassy millerite needles to 2.7 cm is aesthetically set on the side of a vug filled with glassy, translucent, modified calcite scalenohedrons. These came out in the 1960s. Ex. Robert Whitmore Collection.
© Rob Lavinsky & irocks.com
Estabrook Park, Milwaukee, Milwaukee County, Wisconsin, USA
5.6 x 4.0 x 3.6 cm. A rarity from the USA. Nestled aesthetically in the calcite-lined geode is a divergent, acicular spray of millerite crystals, to 2 cm in length. The lustrous, golden crystals of millerite are associated with lustrous and translucent, colorless calcite crystals, to 1.4 cm in length. This is a classic association, and very rarely ...
© Rob Lavinsky & irocks.com
Estabrook Park, Milwaukee, Milwaukee County, Wisconsin, USA
4.5 x 3.7 x 2.4 cm. A very fine combination specimen from an extinct Milwaukee locale. A beautiful spray of lustrous, brassy millerite needles to 2.7 cm is aesthetically set on the side of a vug filled with glassy, translucent, modified calcite scalenohedrons. These came out in the 1960s. Ex. Robert Whitmore Collection.
© Rob Lavinsky & irocks.com
Estabrook Park, Milwaukee, Milwaukee County, Wisconsin, USA
Millerite in calcite, 20 mm.
Estabrook Park, Milwaukee, Milwaukee County, Wisconsin, USA
1.8 x 0.6 x 0.5 cm. A beautiful green group of "needle"-like crystals of millerite from the Estabrook Park locality which are outcrops of dolostones and old quarries along Milwaukee River. You can't get these anymore since the site is now a park and closed off to collectors. A lovely little thumbnail specimen with a small amount of matrix and a ...
© Rob Lavinsky & irocks.com
Estabrook Park, Milwaukee, Milwaukee County, Wisconsin, USA
6.6 x 5.0 x 4.8 cm. A 2.0 cm spray of splendent, brassy millerite needles is aesthetically set with nail-head spar calcite crystals on the end of the vuggy limestone matrix on this showy and excellent combination specimen from an extinct Milwaukee locale. One side of the piece is very vuggy and is filled with many more calcite crystals and some ...
© Rob Lavinsky & irocks.com
Estabrook Park, Milwaukee, Milwaukee County, Wisconsin, USA
6.3 x 4.2 x 3.3 cm. Nestled aesthetically in a limestone vug with colorless calcite rhombs, to 5 mm across, is a diverging spray of acicular, lustrous, brassy colored milllerite crystals measuring 2 cm in length. These were only collected a few times in what is now a city park in Milwaukee and are super Midwest classics that are almost never ...
© Rob Lavinsky & irocks.com
Estabrook Park, Milwaukee, Milwaukee County, Wisconsin, USA
5.6 x 4.0 x 3.6 cm. A rarity from the USA. Nestled aesthetically in the calcite-lined geode is a divergent, acicular spray of millerite crystals, to 2 cm in length. The lustrous, golden crystals of millerite are associated with lustrous and translucent, colorless calcite crystals, to 1.4 cm in length. This is a classic association, and very rarely ...
© Rob Lavinsky & irocks.com
Estabrook Park, Milwaukee, Milwaukee County, Wisconsin, USA
1.8 x 0.6 x 0.5 cm. A beautiful green group of "needle"-like crystals of millerite from the Estabrook Park locality which are outcrops of dolostones and old quarries along Milwaukee River. You can't get these anymore since the site is now a park and closed off to collectors. A lovely little thumbnail specimen with a small amount of matrix and a ...
© Rob Lavinsky & irocks.com
Estabrook Park, Milwaukee, Milwaukee County, Wisconsin, USA
6.6 x 5.0 x 4.8 cm. A 2.0 cm spray of splendent, brassy millerite needles is aesthetically set with nail-head spar calcite crystals on the end of the vuggy limestone matrix on this showy and excellent combination specimen from an extinct Milwaukee locale. One side of the piece is very vuggy and is filled with many more calcite crystals and some ...
© Rob Lavinsky & irocks.com
Estabrook Park, Milwaukee, Milwaukee County, Wisconsin, USA
6.6 x 5.0 x 4.8 cm. A 2.0 cm spray of splendent, brassy millerite needles is aesthetically set with nail-head spar calcite crystals on the end of the vuggy limestone matrix on this showy and excellent combination specimen from an extinct Milwaukee locale. One side of the piece is very vuggy and is filled with many more calcite crystals and some ...
© Rob Lavinsky & irocks.com
Estabrook Park, Milwaukee, Milwaukee County, Wisconsin, USA
1.8 x 0.6 x 0.5 cm. A beautiful green group of "needle"-like crystals of millerite from the Estabrook Park locality which are outcrops of dolostones and old quarries along Milwaukee River. You can't get these anymore since the site is now a park and closed off to collectors. A lovely little thumbnail specimen with a small amount of matrix and a ...
© Rob Lavinsky & irocks.com
Estabrook Park, Milwaukee, Milwaukee County, Wisconsin, USA
Millerite from Wisconsin is one of the rarest USA classic metallic species. They are unobtainable except in old collections. This specimen features a protected spray of crystals, 2.5 cm tall, sitting in a vug in the matrix. It would be considered a larger specimen for the material, and unlike most it actually makes for a good display piece with ...
© Rob Lavinsky & iRocks.com
Estabrook Park, Milwaukee, Milwaukee County, Wisconsin, USA
An old-time, American Midwest classic from early on in the building of Jack's equally classic collection. This exceptional thumbnail from Milwaukee, Wisconsin features a limestone vug filled with a gorgeous spray of bright and brassy millerite needles to 9 mm. Highly recognizable, and sought-after, millerites this good are almost never available ...
© Rob Lavinsky & MineralAuctions.com
Estabrook Park, Milwaukee, Milwaukee County, Wisconsin, USA
6.3 x 4.2 x 3.3 cm. Nestled aesthetically in a limestone vug with colorless calcite rhombs, to 5 mm across, is a diverging spray of acicular, lustrous, brassy colored milllerite crystals measuring 2 cm in length. These were only collected a few times in what is now a city park in Milwaukee and are super Midwest classics that are almost never ...
© Rob Lavinsky & irocks.com
Estabrook Park, Milwaukee, Milwaukee County, Wisconsin, USA
Millerite from Wisconsin is one of the rarest USA classic metallic species. They are unobtainable except in old collections. This specimen features a protected spray of crystals, 2.5 cm tall, sitting in a vug in the matrix. It would be considered a larger specimen for the material, and unlike most it actually makes for a good display piece with ...
© Rob Lavinsky & iRocks.com
Estabrook Park, Milwaukee, Milwaukee County, Wisconsin, USA
An old-time, American Midwest classic from early on in the building of Jack's equally classic collection. This exceptional thumbnail from Milwaukee, Wisconsin features a limestone vug filled with a gorgeous spray of bright and brassy millerite needles to 9 mm. Highly recognizable, and sought-after, millerites this good are almost never available ...
© Rob Lavinsky & MineralAuctions.com
Estabrook Park, Milwaukee, Milwaukee County, Wisconsin, USA
A sharp and colorful 1.6 cm spray of lustrous, brassy metallic millerite needles is aesthetically set in a calcite cleavage on the dolostone matrix on this classic thumbnail. This fine thumbnail is from long extinct quarries, that now lie within a park where collecting is prohibited. These were collected in the 1960s. Ex Bill and Anne Cook ...
© Rob Lavinsky & MineralAuctions.com
Estabrook Park, Milwaukee, Milwaukee County, Wisconsin, USA
Millerite from Wisconsin is one of the rarest USA classic metallic species. They are unobtainable except in old collections. This specimen features a protected spray of crystals, 2.5 cm tall, sitting in a vug in the matrix. It would be considered a larger specimen for the material, and unlike most it actually makes for a good display piece with ...
© Rob Lavinsky & iRocks.com
Estabrook Park, Milwaukee, Milwaukee County, Wisconsin, USA
Millerite from Wisconsin is one of the rarest USA classic metallic species. They are unobtainable except in old collections. This specimen features a protected spray of crystals, 2.5 cm tall, sitting in a vug in the matrix. It would be considered a larger specimen for the material, and unlike most it actually makes for a good display piece with ...
© Rob Lavinsky & iRocks.com
Estabrook Park, Milwaukee, Milwaukee County, Wisconsin, USA
Spray of millerite needles in calcite vug altering to homesite. In the collection of Eric and Carolyn Fritzsch #6093.
Estabrook Park, Milwaukee, Milwaukee County, Wisconsin, USA
An old-time, American Midwest classic from early on in the building of Jack's equally classic collection. This exceptional thumbnail from Milwaukee, Wisconsin features a limestone vug filled with a gorgeous spray of bright and brassy millerite needles to 9 mm. Highly recognizable, and sought-after, millerites this good are almost never available ...
© Rob Lavinsky & MineralAuctions.com