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Cinnabar

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Cinnabar

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Description
Locality: 
Tongren Mine, Bijiang District, Tongren, Guizhou Province, China (Peoples Republic)
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
6.2 × 3.6 × 1.6 cm
Description

Beautiful, sharp and lustrous cinnabar crystals on a contrasty white matrix.

Very attractive specimen from Armin Wendland collection

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Cinnabar

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