Mineralogical Magazine; April 2004; v. 68; no. 2;
p. 241-245; DOI: 10.1180/0026461046820184
© 2004 Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland
Aurivilliusite, Hg2+Hg1+OI, a new mineral species from the Clear Creek claim, San Benito County, California, USA
A. C. Roberts1,*,
J. A. R. Stirling1,
A. J. Criddle2,
G. E. Dunning3 and
J. Spratt2
1 Geological Survey of Canada, 601 Booth Street, Ottawa, Ontario K1A 0E8, Canada
2 Department of Mineralogy, The Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW7 5BD, UK
3 773 Durshire Way, Sunnyvale, California 94087, USA

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FIG. 1. Aurivilliusite-bearing splattered patch on quartz. The brownish-red powder within the patch is where material was extracted for powder XRD identification.
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