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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. Cinnabar is in course of deposition at the present day from the hot waters of Sulphur Bank[?], in. California, and Steamboat Springs[?], Nevada.
Hepatic cinnabar is an impure variety from Idrija in Carniola, in which the cinnabar is mixed with bituminous and earthy matter.
Metacinnabarite is a cubic form of mercuric sulphide, this compound being dimorphous.
For a general description of cinnabar, see G. F. Becker’s Geology of the Quicksilver Deposits of the Pacific Slope, U.S. Geol. Surv. Monographs, No. xiii. (1888). (F. W. R.*)
based on an article from 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
See also: List of minerals
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