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 | | Cinnabar (German Zinnober), sometimes written cinnabarite, is a name applied to red mercuric sulphide (HgS), or native vermilion, the common ore of mercury. |
 | | Cinnabar is generally found in a massive, granular or earthier form, of bright red colour, but it occasionally occurs in crystals, with a metallic adamantine lustre. |
 | | Cinnabar is found in all localities which yield quicksilver, notably Almaden[?] (Spain), New Almaden[?] (California), Idrija[?] (Slovenia), Landsberg[?], near Ober-Moschel[?] in the Palatinate, Ripa[?], at the foot of the Apuan Alps[?] (Tuscany), the mountain Avala (Servia), Huancavelica[?] (Peru), and the province of Kweichow[?] in China, whence very fine crystals have been obtained. |
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