Cinnabar w/ Montroydite (RARE combo) Fioravanti Coll.

Item Description

Montroydite is a rare Mercury-oxide and is extremely rare as specimens from the old cinnabar/mercury deposits at Amiata Mt. This very rare combination specimen is a showy solid crust of hefty, colorful, banded, two-toned red, botryoidal cinnabar with oxidized gray montroydite microcrystals clustered in a depression between cinnabar botryoids. Specimens of any species are rare from this old cinnabar mine. Ex Giancarlo Fioravanti Collection and acquired in 1974.