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Native Mercury On Dolomite With Cinnabar Inclusions & Quartz

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Native Mercury On Dolomite With Cinnabar Inclusions & Quartz

Ex J & S Mommers Collection.

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Description
Locality: 
Tongren Mine, Bijiang District, Tongren, Guizhou Province, China (Peoples Republic)
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
3 × 2.7 × 2 cm
Description

A triangular piece of grey limestone is enclosed in small gemmy quartz crystals on to which white dolomite crystals have been deposited.

During their deposition they were included by red cinnabar and scattered amongst these crystals are small balls of mercury.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Mercury

Formula: 
Hg
Strunz: 
1.AD.05
Crystal System: 
Hexagonal
Hardness: 
0.0
Colour: 
Tin white

Dolomite

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

Cinnabar

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

Quartz

Formula: 
SiO2
Strunz: 
4.DA.05
Crystal System: 
Trigonal
Hardness: 
7.0
Streak: 
White
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