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Edgarbaileyite

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Edgarbaileyite

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Description
Locality: 
Red Bird Mine, Antelope Springs, Pershing County, Nevada, United States of America
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
2 × 1.5 × 1.5 cm
Description

Edgarbaileyite is the first and up to now the only silicate of mercury known in Nature!

It occurs in this specimen as yellow crystal aggregates associated to deep 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

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