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Coccinite Azurite & Cinnabar

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Coccinite Azurite & Cinnabar

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Description
Locality: 
Backofen Mine, Landsberg, Obermoschel, Donnersbergkreis, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
Class: 
Massive/Crystalline
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
8.1 × 4 × 2.2 cm
Description

You are bidding on a large sample with extremely rare, bright orange-red coccinite in powdery aggregates in matrix with sprays of malachite, blades of hemimorphite, and small azurite and cinnabar crystals in vugs from the type locale for coccinite. Old sample and hard to find! 

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Coccinite

Formula: 
HgI2
Strunz: 
3.AB.10
Crystal System: 
Tetragonal
Hardness: 
0.0
Type Locality: 
Casas Viejas, Mexico

Azurite

Formula: 
Cu3(CO3)2(OH)2
Strunz: 
5.BA.05
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic
Hardness: 
3.5 - 4.0
Type Locality: 
Chessy copper mines, Chessy-les-Mines, Le Bois d'Oingt, Rhône, Rhône-Alpes, France...

Cinnabar

Formula: 
HgS
Strunz: 
2.CD.15a
Crystal System: 
Hexagonal
Hardness: 
2.0 - 2.5

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