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Idrialite from
Skaggs Springs Mine, Skaggs Springs, Warm Springs Dam, Coast Range, Sonoma Co., California, USA

Description
Quality of samples:not specified / average specimens
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
References
References:Bradley, W.W. (1937), Thirty-third report of the State Mineralogist: California Division Mines Report 33: 345; Everhart, Donald Lough (1950a), Skaggs Springs quicksilver mine, Sonoma County, California: California Journal of Mines and Geology: 46: 390; Strunz, Hugo and Contag, B. (1965), Evenkit, Flagstaffit, Idrialin und Reficit. Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie, Monatshefte: 1: 19-25; Geissman, T.A., Sun, K.Y., and Murdoch, J. (1967) Organic minerals. Picine and chrysene as constituents of the mineral curtisite (idrialite). Experentia: 23: 793-794; White, D.E. (1967) Mercury and base-metal deposits with associated thermal and mineral waters. In: H.L. Barnes (Editor), Geochemistry of hydrothermal ore deposits. Holt Reinhart and Winston, New York: 590; American Mineralogist (2009): 94: 1325–1332.; Wright, F.E. & E.T. Allen (1925), Curtisite, a new organic mineral from Skaggs Springs, Sonoma County, California (abstract): American Mineralogist: 11: 169; Murdoch, Joseph & Robert W. Webb (1966), Minerals of California, Centennial Volume (1866-1966): California Division Mines & Geology Bulletin 189: 150, 165, 263, 283, 319.
Associated minerals:
Associates:Metacinnabar
Opal
Realgar
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Idrialite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Skaggs Springs Mine, Skaggs Springs, Warm Springs Dam, Coast Range, Sonoma Co., California, USA
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