NICKEL
Specimen nik-1
$ 25.00Dims mm=30.1x22.1x11.1
Wt g=4.22
Colorado, USA
This specimen of the element nickel is simply too perfect to be natural - I am certain that it is lab grown. It is a lovely silver-gray color and metallic luster, and has a botryoidal growth resulting in a branching tree that looks much like a sea fan or certain corals. The base has an area that exposes the center of the material, which is a black material with bright green crystals which must be a decomposition product of the nickel, possibly annabergite.