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Cinnabar

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Cinnabar

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Description
Locality: 
Monte Amiata, Tuscany, Italy
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
8 × 8 × 5 cm
Description

An excellent and showy old time specimen richly covered with earthy   red cinnabar on nicely contrasting milky quartz-rich matrix from the famous San Salvatore Mine, Tuscany, Italy.

With two nice old labels

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Cinnabar

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