Millerite in Fossil Mollusc! (Rob Lavinsky Coll.)

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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 mollusc shell. This was one of the treasures of my childhood collection. Try to find another from this extinct locale! They are rare enough anyhow now that the land is a protected park and it is illegal to colelct there, but in a fossil...?!