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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: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
6.7 × 5.9 × 3 cm
Largest Crystal: 
0.70cm
Description

Exquisite dark red rhombohedral twin crystal on quartz. Smaller cinnabars present also in the quartz crystals cavity.

Very representative piece acquired in 2003 at Denver Mineral Show from a chinese dealer.

No damage!

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Cinnabar

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