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Native Mercury With Cinnabar

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Native Mercury With Cinnabar

Ex-David J. Eicher Collection; ex-John H. Eicher Collection

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Description
Locality: 
Brewster County, Texas, United States of America
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
3.7 × 1.8 × 1.7 cm
Description

Tiny, silvery spheres of native mercury accompanied by plentiful reddish cinnabar on matrix; an old specimen acquired by John H. Eicher in the early 1940s.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Mercury

Formula: 
Hg
Strunz: 
1.AD.05
Crystal System: 
Hexagonal
Hardness: 
0.0
Colour: 
Tin white

Cinnabar

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

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