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Cinnabar

With Antique Label

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Description
Locality: 
Nikitovka, Gorlovka, Donetsk Oblast', Ukraine
Class: 
Single Crystal
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
4.2 × 0.8 × 0.8 cm
Largest Crystal: 
0.10cm
Description

A small, twinned floater of cinnabar from Nikitovka Hg-deposit. Comes in a glass flacon with a late 19th to early 2oth century label. Size given is for the glas flacon, the crystal measures ~ 1 mm.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Cinnabar

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