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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: 
5.3 × 4 × 2 cm
Weight: 
51.00gr
Description

You are bidding on a bright red Cinnabar cluster detached from the matrix by means of acetone. I have attached the photos taken beforehand for your documentation and amazement at the good forgery.

Before I put it in acetone to test it, it was is embedded in a matrix of Dolomite and Calcite. Accompanied by tiny black crystals of a mineral I don't know.
Many, if not most, of the cinnabar pieces on the market have crystals glued into them.

Ex Peter Bosse, Kassel

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Cinnabar

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