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Metacinnabar & Cinnabar

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Metacinnabar & Cinnabar

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Description
Locality: 
Las Cuevas Mine, Almadén, Ciudad Real, Castilla La Mancha, Spain
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
5.2 × 3.6 × 2.5 cm
Description

Complex crystallization of metacinnabar looking like balls richly in vugs and cavities and associated with small, extremely bright cinnabar crystals. Excellent specimen for the species at this very classic locality.

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

Cinnabar

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

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