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Cinnabar On Dolomite

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Cinnabar On Dolomite

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Description
Locality: 
Tongren Mine, Bijiang District, Tongren, Guizhou Province, China (Peoples Republic)
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
8.5 × 5.1 × 1.8 cm
Largest Crystal: 
2.00cm
Description

A huge 2.0cm gem red cinnabar crystal, accompanied by several smaller crystals blaze brightly on a bed of white dolomite crystals. This specimen displays beautiful and has a beautiful intsenity of colour. Appears free of damage, nicely terminated with a professionally sawn matrix.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Cinnabar

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

Dolomite

Formula: 
CaMg(CO3)2
Strunz: 
5.AB.10
Crystal System: 
Trigonal - Rhombohedral
Hardness: 
3.5 - 4.0
Streak: 
White
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