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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: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
2 × 1.8 × 1.1 cm
Description

Dozens of dark red to black isolated crystals of metacinnabar, an uncommon polymorph of cinnabar on a silicified matrix.

Ex Francis Hubert #11752.

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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