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Native Mercury & Cinnabar

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Native Mercury & Cinnabar

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Description
Locality: 
El Entredicho, Almadenejos, Ciudad Real, Castilla La Mancha, Spain
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
3.8 × 4.5 × 2 cm
Description

Bright metallic native mercury with red cinnabar crystals on matrix. The larger sphere of mercury is 2 mm in diameter.

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
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