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Cinnabar

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Description
Locality: 
Tongren Mine, Bijiang District, Tongren, Guizhou Province, China (Peoples Republic)
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
2.1 × 5.5 × 2.8 cm
Largest Crystal: 
1.40cm
Description

Crude, red penetration twins of cinnabar up to 1.4 cm across on matrix af crystallized quartz from Tongren, China. Despite not being smooth and too lustrous, the crystals are a textbook example of penetration twins. They are crudely developed but they do not show any visible damage.

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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