Description
Small red cinnabar crystals on siliceous gangue strewn with cinnabar coatings.
Cinnabar from Almaden in Spain.
Cinnabar has been a sought-after mineral since antiquity, as an ore of mercury, to be used in the amalgamation of gold.
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