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Native Mercury & Cinnabar

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Native Mercury & Cinnabar

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Description
Locality: 
Socrates Mine, Castle Rock Springs, Sonoma County, California, United States of America
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
3.2 × 2.5 × 2 cm
Description

Several isolated native mercury droplets associated with intense red cinnabar crystals on siderite-quartz matrix. 

 

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