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Hypercinnabar

Rare Mineral

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Description
Locality: 
Clear Creek Claim, Goat Mountain, New Idria, San Benito County, California, United States of America
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Micromount (under 1cm)
Size: 
0.8 × 0.8 × 0.2 cm
Description

Dark red crystals of the very rare mercury mineral hypercinnabar associated to minoritary red cinnabar.

Hypercinnabar has only been found in 6 localities worldwide.

Analyzed specimen see copy attached.

New discovery in Clear Creek mine.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Hypercinnabar

Formula: 
HgS
Strunz: 
2.CD.15b
Hardness: 
3.0
Type Locality: 
Mount Diablo Mine (Mt. Diablo Mine; Diablo Mine; Ryne Mine), Mount Diablo (Mt Diablo), Mount Diablo State Park, Clayton, Diablo Range, Contra Costa Co., California, USA

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