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Native Mercury & Cinnabar

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Native Mercury & 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: 
5.1 × 3.9 × 2 cm
Weight: 
42.00gr
Description

Spectacular matrix cinnabar specimen with pretty red cinnabar crystals and dotted with many drops of native mercury, small spots of schuetteite, a rare mercury sulfate, are also observed.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Mercury

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

Cinnabar

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

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