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|   |   | Name: Eglestonite RRUFF ID: R140234 Ideal Chemistry: ([Hg1+]2)3OCl3(OH) Locality: Cinnabar City mine, Spring Valley District, Pershing County, Nevada, USA Source: Rock Currier [view label] Owner: RRUFF Description: Micro group of yellow vitreous crystals with a greasy vitreous amber unknown mercury mineral, cinnabar, calomel and native mercury all in calcite. Status: The identification of this mineral has been confirmed by single-crystal X-ray diffraction. | 
| Quick search: [ All Eglestonite samples (2) ] | ||
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| RRUFF ID: | R140234.9 | ||||||
| Sample Description: | Single crystal, powder profile is calculated | ||||||
| Cell Refinement Output: | a: 16.045(1)Å    b: 16.045(1)Å    c: 16.045(1)Å alpha: 90° beta: 90° gamma: 90° Volume: 4130.6(2)Å3 Crystal System: cubic | ||||||
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| REFERENCES for Eglestonite | |
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| American Mineralogist Crystal Structure Database Record: [view record] | |
| Anthony J W, Bideaux R A, Bladh K W, and Nichols M C (1990) Handbook of Mineralogy, Mineral Data Publishing, Tucson Arizona, USA, by permission of the Mineralogical Society of America. [view file] | |
| Moses A J (1903) Eglestonite, terlinguaite, and montroydite, new mercury minerals from Terlingua, Texas, American Journal of Science, Fourth Series, 16, 253-263 [view file] | |
| Moses A J (1904) Eglestonit, Terlinguaït und Montroydit, neue Quecksilbermineralien von Terlingua in Texas, Zeitschrift für Kristallographie, 39, 3-13 [view file] | |
| Mereiter K, Zemann J (1976) Neubearbeitung des Quecksilberminerals Eglestonit: Kristallstruktur, chemische Zusammensetzung und Synthese, Tschermaks Mineralogische und Petrographische Mitteilungen, 23, 105-115 | |
| Fleischer M, Jambor J (1977) New mineral names, American Mineralogist, 62, 395-397 [view file] | |
| Mereiter K, Zemann J, Hewat A W (1992) Eglestonite, (Hg2)3Cl3O2H: confirmation of the chemical formula by neutron powder diffraction, American Mineralogist, 77, 839-842 [view file] | |
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