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cinnabar crystals from China

cinnabar

Its name comes from the Persian “zinjifrah” or Latin “cinnabaris” … It is known since antiquity, it was described by Theophrastus in 315 BC. It was used as a red pigment. This is the main ore of mercury, all the mercury compounds are highly toxic.

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chalcopyrite cut in cabochon

chalcopyrite

Its name comes from the Greek “chalcos”, which means copper and pyrite: this is a copper pyrites. It was identified in 1725 by Henckel. Chalcopyrite may contain gold in small quantities, it is then exploited for this precious metal.

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oval cut carrollite of Congo

carrollite

Its name comes from the locality where it was identified by Faber in 1852: the Patapsco mine in Carroll County, Maryland in the United States. It is part of the linnaeïtes, it forms a series with the violarite, the polydymite, the siegenite according to the

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