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Calomel Eglestonite & Terlinguaite

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Calomel Eglestonite & Terlinguaite

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Description
Locality: 
Terlingua District, Brewster County, Texas, United States of America
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Micromount (under 1cm)
Size: 
0.9 × 0.7 × 0.8 cm
Description

You are bidding on a small sample with a vug of rough eglestonite crystals hosting numerous tetragonal plates of calomel and sparse yellow terlinguaite and kleinite. A very good calomel sample. 

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Calomel

Formula: 
(Hg2+2)Cl2
Strunz: 
3.AA.30
Hardness: 
1.5 - 2.0
Type Locality: 
Landsberg (Moschellandsberg), Alsenz-Obermoschel, Palatinate, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany

Eglestonite

Formula: 
(Hg2+2)3OCl3(OH)
Strunz: 
3.DD.05
Crystal System: 
Isometric
Hardness: 
2.5
Type Locality: 
Terlingua District, Brewster Co., Texas, USA

Terlinguaite

Formula: 
(Hg2+2)Hg2+2Cl2O2
Strunz: 
3.DD.20
Hardness: 
2.0 - 3.0
Type Locality: 
Terlingua District, Brewster Co., Texas, USA

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