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Edgarbaileyite (Edgarbaileyit)

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Bildbreite: 3 mm; Fundort: Clear Creek Claim (Clear Creek Mine), New Idria District, San Benito Co., Kalifornien, USA
Copyright: Maurice de Graaf; Contribution: slugslayer
Location: USA/Kalifornien (California)/San Benito Co./New Idria District/Clear Creek Claim (Mine)
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olivgrüner Edgarbaileyit mit Cinnabarit

Bildbreite: 3 mm; Fundort: Clear Creek Claim (Clear Creek Mine), New Idria District, San Benito Co., Kalifornien, USA
Copyright: Maurice de Graaf
Contribution: slugslayer 2008-08-06
Locality: Clear Creek Claim (Mine) / New Idria District / San Benito Co. / Kalifornien (California) / USA

Collectors Summary

Color gelb, grün
Streak color gelblichgrün
Hardness (Mohs) 4
Cleavages keine
Fracture unregelmäßig bis halbmuschelig
Solubility +++ HCl, HNO3, photosensitiv!
Crystal System monoklin, C2/m, Cm, C2

Chemism

Chemical formula

Hg61+Si2O7

Chemical composition

Quecksilber, Silicium, Sauerstoff

Unit weight: 1371.71907 u; Number of atoms in the formula: 15

Info

Empirical formula:

Hg6Si2O7

Element

Symbol

Weight%

Atoms

Atoms%

Atom weight (u)

Sum weight (u)
Oxygen

O

8.16

7

46.67

15.9994300

111.9960100
Silicon

Si

4.09

2

13.33

28.0855300

56.1710600
Mercury

Hg

87.74

6

40.00

200.5920000

1,203.5520000

Analysis wt%

Hg2O : 89.60, SiO2 : 8.60 (Ref: Mineralogical Record 90)

Strunz 9th edition incl. updates

9.BC.25

9: Silikate (Germanate)
B: Gruppensilikate (Sorosilikate)
C: Si2O7 Gruppen, ohne nicht-tetrahedrale Anionen; Kationen in oktahedraler [6] und/oder anderer Koordination
25:Edgarbaileyit-Gruppe

Lapis Classification

VIII/C.06-020

VIII: SILIKATE
C: Gruppensilikate
6: Gruppensilikate [Si2O7] 6-, ohne tetraederfremde Anionen

Classification by Hölzel

9.BB.510

9: SILICATES
B: Sorosilicates
B: Melilite-Group

Dana 8th edition

55.05.01.01

55: Sorosilicate Minerals
05: Sorosilicates Sorosilicate Si2O7 Groups, Generally with No Additional Anions with dimeric cations

IMA status

Anerkannt von der CNMNC

Mineral status

anerkanntes Mineral

Optical Properties

Color

gelb, grün

Streak color

gelblichgrün

max. Birefringence

schwach

RI value α / ω / n

2.34

Ri mean

2.34

2V angle

Biaxial

Crystallography

Crystal System

monoklin

Class (H-M)

2/m, m, 2

Space Group number

12, 8, 5

Space Group

C2/m, Cm, C2

Cell parameters a (Å)

11.725

Cell parameters b (Å)

7.698

Cell parameters c (Å)

5.967

Cell parameters a/b or c/a

1.523

Cell parameters c/b

0.775

Cell parameters α

90°

Cell parameters β

112.7

Cell parameters γ

90°

Z

2

Volumne (ų)

496.857

X-Ray Powder Diffraction

3.160(100),
3.027(30),
2.952(30),
2.765(20),
2.715(60),
2.353(20),
2.321(20),
1.872(40)
XRD chart Edgarbaileyite

Calculated from d-spacing and intensity at 0.1541838 nm (Cu)

Crystals 3D

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Crystal Structure 3D

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Physical Properties

Hardness (Mohs)

4

VHN (Hardness Vickers)

192 (100g)

Density (g/cm³)

9.4 (gemessen)

9.168 ( ρ calc. Mineralienatlas )

Cleavages

keine

Fracture

unregelmäßig bis halbmuschelig

Tenacity

spröde

Instability

+++ HCl, HNO3, photosensitiv!

(Co-)Type locality

(Co-)Type locality

USA/Kalifornien (California)/San Benito Co./New Idria District/Clear Creek Claim (Mine)

USA/Kalifornien (California)/Sonoma Co./Socrates Mine

USA/Kalifornien (California)/San Benito Co./New Idria District/Clear Creek Area/Clear Creek Mine

Preface

Author (Name, Year)

Roberts & Bonardi & Erd & Criddle & Stanley & Cressey & Angel & Laflam

References

Mineralogical Record 21 (1990), 215

Other languages

German

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Spanish

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French

Edgarbaileyite

English

Edgarbaileyite

Russian

Эдгарбейлиит

Traditional Chinese

矽汞石

Simplified Chinese

硅汞石

CNMNC (IMA)-Number

IMA 1988-028

CNMNC symbol

Symbol

Ebl

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