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The Clear Creek mine, San Benito County, California: A unique mercury locality

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2005

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Dunning, Gail E.
Hadley, Ted A.
Magnasco, John
Christy, Andrew
Cooper, Joseph F

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Mineralogical Record Inc

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From the first discovery in 1959 until the present, the abandoned Clear Creek mine has yielded an exceptional suite of rare and unusual mercury-bearing minerals unequaled in the world. Among those recently described as new are aurivilliusite, clearcreekite, deanesmithite, edgarbaileyite, edoylerite, hanawaltite, peterbaylissite, wattersite, szymańskiite, tedhadleyite and vasilyevite. In addition, seven new mercury-bearing species are currently under study. Other mercury-bearing minerals identified from the mineralized veins include montroydite, schuetteite, calomel, gianellaite, mosesite, terlinguaite, eglestonite, metacinnabar, cinnabar, native mercury and the second world occurrence of donharrisite.

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Keywords: mercury (element); mineralization; California; North America; San Benito County; United States; Western Hemisphere; World

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http://hdl.handle.net/1885/73771

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The Mineralogical Record

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