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Cinnabar

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Description
Locality: 
Nikitovka, Gorlovka, Donetsk Oblast', Ukraine
Class: 
Crystal Group/Cluster
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
3.4 × 3.1 × 1.2 cm
Description

Penetration-twinned red cinnabar in combination with snowy white quartz at one side. The crystals are sharp terminated and lustrous. The locality was an important mercury mine, started in 1885, closed in 1994.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Cinnabar

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