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Name: Wattersite RRUFF ID: R060626 Ideal Chemistry: Hg1+4Hg2+O2(CrO4) Locality: Clear Creek claim, San Benito County, California, USA Source: Michael Scott S100234 [view label] Owner: RRUFF Description: Black metallic crystals associated with red cinnabar, white quartz, silver balls of liquid mercury. Crystals are twinned by a 2-fold rotation around [100]. Status: The identification of this mineral has been confirmed by single-crystal X-ray diffraction. |
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RRUFF ID: | R060626.9 | ||||||
Sample Description: | Single crystal, powder profile is calculated | ||||||
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a: 11.251(3)Å b: 11.642(2)Å c: 6.585(2)Å alpha: 90° beta: 98.23(1)° gamma: 90° Volume: 853.7(2)Å3 Crystal System: monoclinic |
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REFERENCES for Wattersite | |
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American Mineralogist Crystal Structure Database Record: [view record] |
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Anthony J W, Bideaux R A, Bladh K W, and Nichols M C (1990) Handbook of Mineralogy, Mineral Data Publishing, Tucson Arizona, USA, by permission of the Mineralogical Society of America. [view file] |
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Roberts A C, Bonardi M, Erd R C, Criddle A J, Le Page Y (1991) Wattersite Hg+14Hg+2Cr+6O6 a new mineral from the Clear Creek claim San Benito Country, California, The Mineralogical Record, 22, 269-272 [view file] |
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Jambor J L (1992) New mineral names, American Mineralogist, 77, 670-675 [view file] |
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Groat L A, Roberts A C, Le Page Y (1995) The crystal structure of wattersite, Hg1+4Hg2+Cr6+O6, The Canadian Mineralogist, 33, 41-46 [view file] |
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