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Cinnabar

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Description
Locality: 
Mariquita Mine, Usagre, Badajoz, Extremadura, Spain
Class: 
Massive/Crystalline
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
9.2 × 5.7 × 4.1 cm
Weight: 
256.00gr
Description

Nice specimen of spatic cinnabar with some cinnabar micro-crystals on a limestone matrix that is typical of this old mine that is now closed. Possible presence of realgar and metacinnabar at the micro level since both minerals are also very present in this mine.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Cinnabar

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

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