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Wattersite & Montroydite

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Description
Locality: 
Clear Creek Claim, Goat Mountain, New Idria, San Benito County, California, United States of America
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
1.7 × 0.9 × 0.6 cm
Description

Black crystal aggregates of the extremely rare Hg mineral wattersite (photos 2, 3, 4) associated to orange montroydite (photos 1, 4) from the type and only known locality for wattersite.

Ex Vandenbroucke Museum collection specimen, from Waregem, Belgium.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Wattersite

Formula: 
(Hg+2)2Hg2+(CrO4)O2
Strunz: 
7.FB.15
Hardness: 
4.5
Type Locality: 
Clear Creek claim (Clear Creek Mine), Picacho Peak, New Idria District, Diablo Range, San Benito Co., California, USA

Montroydite

Formula: 
HgO
Strunz: 
4.AC.15
Hardness: 
1.5 - 2.0
Type Locality: 
Terlingua District, Brewster Co., Texas, USA

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