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Cinnabar

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Description
Locality: 
Landsberg, Obermoschel, Donnersbergkreis, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
8 × 5.5 × 2.3 cm
Description

A very fine, old specimen with deep red crusts of cinnabar micro crystals. Nice contrast to the black goethite mass.

Mining at Landsberg started around 1440 and ceased 1934. 

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Cinnabar

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

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