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Coccinite

Rare Mineral

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Description
Locality: 
Backofen Mine, Landsberg, Obermoschel, Donnersbergkreis, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
1.7 × 1 × 0.5 cm
Description

Extremely rare orange coccinite, a mercury iodide mineral (HgI2) found only on two confirmed localities worldwide. Associated minerals in the sample are cinnabar, malachite, goethite and quartz in a limonite matrix. Iodine minerals are extremely rare in Nature, of the almost 5000 species known only 25 are I-bearing species!

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Coccinite

Formula: 
HgI2
Strunz: 
3.AB.10
Crystal System: 
Tetragonal
Hardness: 
0.0
Type Locality: 
Casas Viejas, Mexico

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