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  Cinnabar II | Mineralium.com - Fine Mineral Specimens
A lot of important cinnabarite mines are located in China.
Two mines are known in the province Guizhou: the Yanwuping (or Aiwuping) mine with Wanshan in the east of the province and the Junchaping mercury mine near Tongren in the west of Guizhou.
Cinnabarite - also known under the name Cinnabarite or Zinnober - is a vermilion, diamond-shining mineral with the chemical composition HgS.
www.mineralium.com /index.php?cat=ZIN&lang=ENG   (142 words)

  
  Encyclopedia: Mercury (element)
Jump to: navigation, search Cinnabar (German Zinnober), sometimes written cinnabarite, is a name applied to red mercury(II) sulfide (HgS), or native vermilion, the common ore of mercury.
Mercury is a relatively poor conductor of heat but is a good conductor of electricity.
As problems may arise when these medicines are exported to countries that prohibit the use of mercury in medicines, in recent times, less toxic substitutes have been devised.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Mercury-(element)   (8109 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: List of minerals
It is of secondary origin and forms in the oxidation zones of copper ore bodies.
This article or section should be merged with Chrysotile Member of the serpentine-kaolinite group, clinochrysotile is the monoclinic form of chrysotile and likely the most common variety.
Menilite is a reddish-brown form of opal, also known as liver opal or leberopal.
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 Tustin, California - Community Guide
The most prominent landmark in the Tustin area is a hill known as "Red Hill" which is 347 feet high.
The soil on Red Hill turned red when ancient volcanic activity deposited cinnabarite (mercury) in the sandstone hill.
The Native Americans than inhabited the Tustin area prior to the Spaniards called the hill "Katuktu" defined as "Hill of Prominence" or "Place of Refuge".
www.orangecounty.net /cities/Tustin.html   (650 words)

  
 Idrija Municipal Museum: Central exhibition   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
Hall 2: Fossils from the wider Idrija region, classified by age, from Carboniferous and Permian, to the youngest, Eocene.
The essential points represented are the complicated site structure and the many varieties of the cinnabarite ore. For the first time in more than seventy years, the M. Lipold collection (from 1853 to 1883) is on view again.
Hall 4: The systematic mineral collection, containing samples form all over the world, and serving as a background for the understanding of the local geological features.
www.muzej-idrija-cerkno.si /rk/petsto.html   (1799 words)

  
 Adept Alchemy (Robert A. Nelson): Transmutation of Mercury to Gold
The process can be described in chemical terms as follows: Prepare (1) b-meta-cinnabarite (a-cinnabarite will not produce the same results, in my experience), (2) a concentrated solution of a mixture of lime and potash and (3) sulfureted potash (potassium polysulfide).
Saturate the cinnabarite with the lime-potash mixture solution, then dry it.
Then saturate with a concentrated solution of potassium polysulfide, and strip the solvent (methyl or ethyl alcohol also can be used).
www.rexresearch.com /adept/aa7hgau.htm   (3577 words)

  
 About MOR Designs
The story of Tustin begins with the land itself, which is situated on the floodplain of the Santa Ana River and it's tributary, Santiago Creek.
The most prominent landmark which is known as "Red Hill" due to ancient volcanic activity which deposited cinnabarite (mecury) that turned the sandstone hill red.
The Native Americans then inhabiting the Tustin area (prior to the Spaniards) called the hill "Katuktu" which is defined as "Hill of Prominence" or "Place of Refuge".
www.mordesigns.com /aboutus.htm   (653 words)

  
 Cinnabarite (of Dana): Cinnabarite (of Dana) mineral information and data.
Cinnabarite (of Dana): Cinnabarite (of Dana) mineral information and data.
This page provides mineralogical data about Cinnabarite (of Dana).
Look for Cinnabarite (of Dana) images on Google
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 (GCJW5J) Not Cinnabar by Marky & Joani   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
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CINNABAR, sometimes written cinnabarite, a name applied to red mercuric sulphide (HgS), or native vermilion, the common ore of mercury.
Cinnabar is found in localities which yield quicksilver, such as New Almaden (California).
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 Warm Cinnabar | Natural Pigments   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
It exhibits a beautiful masstone color of strong red with a tendency toward reddish orange.
朱矽, 辰矽, Chinese red, Cinnabarite (of Dana), Llimpi Merkurblende, Minium (of Pliny and Vitruvius), Vermeil Zinnober
Vermilion is the standard name in English given to the red artists' pigment based on artificially made mercuric sulfide, while cinnabar is the name given to the natural mineral.
www.naturalpigments.com /detail.asp?PRODUCT_ID=450-10S&REFERER=nefanee   (525 words)

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