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Pyrite With Idrialite & Cinnabar

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Pyrite With Idrialite & Cinnabar

Ex Dr. Krantz, Bonn, Germany, ex H. Jaklin
With Antique Label

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Description
Locality: 
Idria Mine, Idria, Gorica Region, Slovenia
Class: 
Massive/Crystalline
Size Range: 
Cabinet (10-18 cm)
Size: 
9 × 11 × 6 cm
Weight: 
890.00gr
Description

Cinnabar specimens from Idria are scarce nowadays. Here is a fine and big old-time specimen: Labeled as "Pyrite conglomerate with idrialite", it consists of a dark variety of impure cinnabar mixed with clayey and organic material (polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons) plus crystalline pyrite as well. It shows typical curved lamellar structures and spherules with some slight reddish reflections. This variety of cinnabar ore is also called Corallinerz or german "Korallenerz".

Comes with antique Hans Jaklin label. He was an austrian collector and mineralogist, born in 1874. His mineral collection consisted almost exclusively of specimens from Austro-Hungarian localities. The Krantz mineral dealership obtained his mineral collection, which appears to have been quite numerous.
All labels are squares of brown paper rubber-stamped with his name in purple ink.

Heavy specimen, in case of doubt please ask for exact shipping cost ("Rest of World" shipping cost example is given for the USA).

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Pyrite

Formula: 
FeS2
Strunz: 
2.EB.05a
Crystal System: 
Isometric
Hardness: 
6.0 - 6.5

Idrialite

Formula: 
C22H14
Strunz: 
10.BA.20
Crystal System: 
Orthorhombic
Hardness: 
1.5
Type Locality: 
Idria Mine (Idrija Mine), Idrija (Idria), Slovenia

Cinnabar

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

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