A Geoscience Digital Image Library
A Geoscience Digital Image Library
| Title | Cinnabar with metacinnabar |
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| Description | Cinnabar (HgS) is a mercury sulfide that typically has a vermillion to pink or scarlet color. Metacinnabar (a different mineral) has the same composition but a black or gray color, and sometimes a metallic luster. Both are important ore minerals of mercury. This specimen, a fine grained mix of both minerals, is about 8 cm in longest dimension. |
| Photographer | Nessa Eull. 2001-07-09. |
| Collection | University of North Dakota Mineralogy Collection #187. |
| Key words | Cinnabar, Metacinnabar |
| Tech details | 423 KB. Hand specimen. Fujifilm FinePix S1Pro digital camera; 60mm AF Nikon micro lens. |
| GeoDIL number | 1065 |
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