A Geoscience Digital Image Library
A Geoscience Digital Image Library
| Title | Cinnabar from Trinity Co., California |
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| Description | Cinnabar (purplish mineral), a sulfide of mercury, HgS, is an important ore mineral. In Trinity County, California, it is found with ankerite, barite, mercury, pyrite and quartz. It is mined in many places, perhaps most famously in Spain and Italy. This sample is about 5 cm across. It contains well developed crystals, but they are very small. Typcially, cinnabar is so fine grained that crystals cannot be seen at all. |
| Location | USA ▹ California ▹ Trinity |
| Photographer | Nessa Eull. 2001-07-09. |
| Collection | University of North Dakota Mineralogy Collection #195. |
| Key words | cinnabar, California |
| Tech details | 617 KB. Hand specimen. Fujifilm FinePix S1Pro digital camera; 60mm AF Nikon micro lens. |
| GeoDIL number | 1066 |
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