The locality consisted of an open cut in which serpentinized rocks were exposed. Often they were broken up and the trick to collecting the artinite specimens was to dig them out to expose them and use a bar to pry them apart and if there was some space between them often on the altered faces of the breccia blocks balls of white hemispheres of prismatic artinite crystals would grow covering the surface of these breccia blocks. Because the surface of these blocks were often somewhat altered it was often possible to break off the surface crust with the white balls of artinite attached. They were frequently associated with tiny white balls of Hydromagnesite and occasional drusees of an orange mineral that was named Desautelsite. Upon long exposure, the Desautelsite became somewhat brown. The locality has produced some of the best specimens of artinite known. [Rock Currier 2010]
References
Cisneros, S.L.; Witkowski, R.E. & Oswald, D.L. (1977): Artinite from San Benito County, California. Mineralogical Record: 8: 457-460.
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