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Edgarbaileyite & Cinnabar

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Edgarbaileyite & Cinnabar

ex Americo Urbinati collection
Type Locality

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Description
Locality: 
Clear Creek Claim, Goat Mountain, New Idria, San Benito County, California, United States of America
Class: 
Crystal Group/Cluster
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
4.2 × 3.1 × 3.1 cm
Description

olive green balls of edgarbaileyite on quartz with red cinnabar ; edgarbaileyite is the only approved natural hg silicate , known in few american  localities .

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

Cinnabar

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