Wattersite

  
 
  
 
   
 
  
Black wattersite micro crystals in vugs with good coverage associated with yellowish green crusts of edgarbaileyite and red cinnabar, sometimes with native mercury, on drusy quartz
Origin: Clear Creek mine, San Benito Co., California, United States (type locality)
Sample size: 2 x 1.5 x 1.5 cm (top), 2 x 2.5 x 2 cm (2nd row), 2 x 2.5 x 1.5 cm (3rd row), 2 x 2 x 1.5 cm (bottom)
 
  
Black micro crystal to about 0.2 mm in a decayed cinnabar vug with associated micro edoylerite crystals in the same vug and other vugs with yellow crust of clearcreekite.
Origin: Clear Creek mine, San Benito Co., California, United States (type locality)
Sample size: 4 x 2 x.15 cm
 

Photo courtesy of: 

Tom Loomis

Dakota Matrix Minerals

 

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