Moving mountains for you
Switch currency

Current Live Auctions

Current Live Fixed Price Sales

Cinnabar & Native Mercury

Views:
Watches:
TPX1028448

Cinnabar & Native Mercury

Classic Locality

Description Tabs

Description
Locality: 
Las Cuevas Mine, Almadén, Ciudad Real, Castilla La Mancha, Spain
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
8.5 × 5.2 × 2.6 cm
Weight: 
140.00gr
Description

Excellent specimen  of cinnabar crystals sprinkled with some drops of native mercury over rock matrix, from this Spanish site totally closed today, so that no more specimens will appear in the future.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Cinnabar

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

Mercury

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

Seller Information

Payment options: offline, paypal_wpp, paypal_wps