Edoylerite

Yellow prismatic crystals of edoylerite with red cinnabar
Origin: Clear Creek Claim (Clear Creek Mine), New Idria district, San Benito Co., California, USA
Picture size: 1 mm
Owner: Thomas Witzke
 

Photo courtesy of: 

Thomas Witzke

Institut für Mineralogie und Lagerstättenlehre
Aachen, Germany

 

  
 
  
Yellow prismatic crystals of edoylerite with red cinnabar
  
2 mm vug filled with acicular, bright yellow crystals
  
Very micro (about 0.1 mm) yellow, acicular edoylerite crystals in a 1 mm vug. Associated with cinnabar and other alteration products of cinnabar.
Origin: Clear Creek mine, San Benito Co., California, United States (type locality)
Sample size: 2.5 x 1.5 x 1 cm (top), 2.5 x 2 x 1 cm (2nd row), 6 x 3 x 3 cm (3rd row), 3 x 2 x 1 cm (bottom)
 

Photo courtesy of: 

Tom Loomis

Dakota Matrix Minerals

 

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