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Metacinnabar

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Description
Locality: 
Mount Diablo Mine, Clayton, Contra Costa County, California, United States of America
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
5.6 × 3.5 × 2.1 cm
Description

Dozens of dark red to black crystals of metacinnabar, an uncommon polymorph of cinnabar, reaching 2 mm in size, on a silicified matrix. They are clearly tetrahedral {111}, modified by {211}, with moderate lustre and very aerial.

Ex Rik Dillen specimen.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Metacinnabar

Formula: 
HgS
Strunz: 
2.CB.05a
Hardness: 
3.0
Type Locality: 
Redington Mine (Boston Mine; Knoxville Mine; Excellsior Mine), Knoxville, Knoxville District, Napa Co., California, USA

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