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Baryte & Cinnabar

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Baryte & Cinnabar

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Description
Locality: 
Essweiler, Lauterecken, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
Class: 
Combination
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
4.8 × 1.2 × 0.9 cm
Weight: 
18.50gr
Description

Here we have a predominantly transparent, elongated barite single crystal, which is covered by cinnabar in the lower area.
The Clarashall mine near Ruschberg is famous for such specimens, but this location, about 30 kilometres away, is less well known.
Ex Benno Rahm Collection

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Baryte

Formula: 
BaSO4
Strunz: 
7.AD.35
Hardness: 
3.0 - 3.5
Streak: 
White

Cinnabar

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