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Cinnabar

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Description
Locality: 
Tongren Mine, Bijiang District, Tongren, Guizhou Province, China (Peoples Republic)
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
4.2 × 7.3 × 4 cm
Largest Crystal: 
1.70cm
Description

Dark red, metallic-lustrous, striated cinnabar crystals up to 17 mm tall on matrix, associated with wine-yellow calcite crystals from the locality Tongren, Guizhou, China. The main crystal is significantly large but unfortunately shows some imperfections along the edge of the crystal. The matrix has also been sawn off but it is not really visible from the front. 

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Cinnabar

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

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