Mineral: Cinnabar
Locality: Tongren Prefecture, Guizhou Province, China
Dimensions: 10 x 6.5 x 11.5 cm / main crystal: 3.5 cm

Description: Mass: 366 g MIM number:1837 Thin plate of small quartz needles colored by iron oxide and white dolomite crystals covered with large twinned crystals of red translucent cinnabar. One of the crystals is doubly terminated. Photographer: FMI / James Elliott Publication: "Paragénesis - Revista de Mineralogía 2019-2"

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