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Terlinguacreekite & Kleinite

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Terlinguacreekite & Kleinite

Rare Mineral

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Description
Locality: 
McDermitt Mine, Opalite, Humboldt County, Nevada, United States of America
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
1.8 × 1.6 × 1.4 cm
Description

Orange crystals of the extremely rare mercury mineral terlinguacreekite associated to sharp yellow kleinite crystals.

Terlinguacreekite is one of the rarest mercury minerals known, with only two localities known worldwide. 

 

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Terlinguacreekite

Formula: 
Hg2+3Cl2O2
Strunz: 
3.DD.55
Hardness: 
0.0
Streak: 
Yellow
Type Locality: 
Perry Pit, Mariposa Mine (California Mountain Mine), Terlingua District, Brewster Co., Texas, USA

Kleinite

Formula: 
(Hg2N)(Cl,SO4)·nH2O
Strunz: 
3.DD.35
Hardness: 
3.5
Streak: 
Yellow
Type Locality: 
Terlingua District, Brewster Co., Texas, USA

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