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Eglestonite

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Description
Locality: 
Cahill Mine, Poverty Peak, Humboldt County, Nevada, United States of America
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
3 × 3 × 1.7 cm
Description

Yellow microcrystals of the rare Hg mineral eglestonite associated to cinnabar from Nevada.

Ex Vandenbroucke Museum collection from Waregem, Belgium.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Eglestonite

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

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