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Cinnabar

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Cinnabar

With Antique Label

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Description
Locality: 
Roßwald Mine, Stahlberg, Rockenhausen, Palatinate, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
3.5 × 2.6 × 2.4 cm
Description

Group of pseudohexagonal cinnabar crystals, well defined, with transparence, intense red color and defined faces and edges. Samples from this mine are difficult to obtain, only in old collections. This sample is from a former German collection with an extended label, from september 1988.
 

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Cinnabar

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