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Cinnabar & Quartz

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Description
Locality: 
Monte Amiata, Tuscany, Italy
Class: 
Combination
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
6.6 × 4.7 × 3.4 cm
Largest Crystal: 
0.75cm
Description

Dark cherry red cinnabar crystals with small, transparent quartz crystals. The main cinnabar crystal is a very nice twin and measures about 0.75 cm. There are more, smaller cinnabar crystals in cavities in the sides of the matrix - a cinnabar-drenched, red quartzite rock.

This material is very rare.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Cinnabar

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

Quartz

Formula: 
SiO2
Strunz: 
4.DA.05
Crystal System: 
Trigonal
Hardness: 
7.0
Streak: 
White

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