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Montroydite Calomel Edgarbaileyite & Wattersite

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Montroydite Calomel Edgarbaileyite & Wattersite

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Description
Locality: 
Clear Creek Claim, Goat Mountain, New Idria, San Benito County, California, United States of America
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
2 × 2 × 0.5 cm
Description

Specimen with small vug, containing rich montroydite (brown-red) with interstitial calomel crystals (withish) and edgarbaileyite (green). See photos. Originally bought this as wattersite, but not sure if it's there!? Black-metallic areas?

 

 

 

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Montroydite

Formula: 
HgO
Strunz: 
4.AC.15
Hardness: 
1.5 - 2.0
Type Locality: 
Terlingua District, Brewster Co., Texas, USA

Calomel

Formula: 
(Hg2+2)Cl2
Strunz: 
3.AA.30
Hardness: 
1.5 - 2.0
Type Locality: 
Landsberg (Moschellandsberg), Alsenz-Obermoschel, Palatinate, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany

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

Wattersite

Formula: 
(Hg+2)2Hg2+(CrO4)O2
Strunz: 
7.FB.15
Hardness: 
4.5
Type Locality: 
Clear Creek claim (Clear Creek Mine), Picacho Peak, New Idria District, Diablo Range, San Benito Co., California, USA

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