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Baryte With Cinnabar

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Baryte With Cinnabar

Floater

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Description
Locality: 
Clarashall Mine, Ruschberg, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
Class: 
Crystal Group/Cluster
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
4.5 × 4.3 × 1.6 cm
Description

Cluster of lustrous tabular baryte crystals with translucent tops with hundreds microscopic inclusions of cinnabar, specially at the base, that gives the crystals core a pinkish colour. It is a floater, crystallized also at the base.

Acquired in 1968, it is an Ex Gerard Vogel specimen.

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

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