“A novelty at Tucson 2020. Cinnabar crystals with dominant rhombohedral habit and with minor crystalline forms, translucent, extraordinarily bright and very bright in color, in matrix of lamellar Gypsum, and with small crystals of Calcite and Quartz. The specimen comes from a recent find and has been carefully analyzed and determined to be Cinnabar. It has been said that in specimens from this find there could be Metacinnabar too, but our analyses have not detected any.
Cocineras Mine, West Camp, Santa Eulalia District, Municipio Aquiles Serdán, Chihuahua, Mexico
Found in: 2019
Specimen size: 4.9 × 3.2 × 2.3 cm = 1.93” × 1.26” × 0.91”
Main crystal size: 0.1 × 0.1 cm = 0.04” × 0.04”
Calcite fluorescent short UV
Reference: TD16AL1”
Jordi Fabre - 15th December 2022