A Geoscience Digital Image Library
A Geoscience Digital Image Library
| Title | Cinnabar, HgS, from Terlingua, Texas |
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| Description | Cinnabar is a (normally) red to violet mineral having composition mercury sulfide, HgS. It is an important ore mineral of mercury that may be deposited in veins and also in crusts and lenses associated with near recent volcanic rocks and hot springs. Here the host is mostly quartz. This specimen is about 8 cm across. |
| Location | USA ▹ Texas. Near Terlingua. |
| Photographer | Nessa Eull. 2001-07-09. |
| Collection | University of North Dakota Mineralogy Collection #206. |
| Key words | cinnabar, Texas |
| Tech details | 432 KB. Hand specimen. Fujifilm FinePix S1Pro digital camera; 60mm AF Nikon micro lens. |
| GeoDIL number | 1075 |
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