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Edgarbaileyite Mercury & Cinnabar

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Edgarbaileyite Mercury & Cinnabar

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Description
Locality: 
Clear Creek Claim, Goat Mountain, New Idria, San Benito County, California, United States of America
Class: 
Combination
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
2 × 3.5 × 2.5 cm
Description

Olive green edgarbaileyite with droplets of native mercury and red cinnabar

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Edgarbaileyite

Formula: 
(Hg-Hg)3Si2O7
Strunz: 
9.BC.25
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic
Hardness: 
4.0
Type Locality: 
Clear Creek claim (Clear Creek Mine), Picacho Peak, New Idria District, Diablo Range, San Benito Co., California, USA

Mercury

Formula: 
Hg
Strunz: 
1.AD.05
Crystal System: 
Hexagonal
Hardness: 
0.0
Colour: 
Tin white

Cinnabar

Formula: 
HgS
Strunz: 
2.CD.15a
Crystal System: 
Hexagonal
Hardness: 
2.0 - 2.5