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Cinnabar With Fluorite & Quartz

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Cinnabar With Fluorite & Quartz

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Description
Locality: 
Chauvai, Batken, Kyrgyzstan
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
3.6 × 1.8 × 2.2 cm
Largest Crystal: 
0.30cm
Description

Dark red, lustrous crystals of cinnabar with light blue cubes of fluorite and long prismatic crystals of quartz.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Cinnabar

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

Fluorite

Formula: 
CaF2
Strunz: 
3.AB.25
Crystal System: 
Isometric
Hardness: 
4.0
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Jáchymov (St Joachimsthal), Jáchymov District (St Joachimsthal), Krušné Hory Mts (Erzgebirge), Karlovy Vary Region, Bohemia (Böhmen; Boehmen), Czech Republic

Quartz

Formula: 
SiO2
Strunz: 
4.DA.05
Crystal System: 
Trigonal
Hardness: 
7.0
Streak: 
White