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Description
Locality: 
San Benito River, San Benito County, California, United States of America
Class: 
Crystal Group/Cluster
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
3.5 × 2.3 × 1.7 cm
Description

The extremely rare Mercury Chromate forms black semi metallic highly lustrous crystals of up to 0.7 mm in size, on a matrix of silicified Jasplite.

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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