“Nestled deep inside this quartz vug, covered by a mm-thick shell of edgarbaileyite, is this little, 0.1 cm, sphere of altering mercury. The green crust is likely edgarbaileyite as well, deanesmithite is also present in the same vug. Note presence of cinnabar with yellow CCUK-8 coatings.
S418-077 N3946N
Specimen is from a Dakota Matrix Mineral microbag, originally from the Gerald and Venice Jungles collection. They collected this most likely in the 1970's or 80's.
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Jeff Weissman - 5th May 2011