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cinnabar

Mercuric sulphide mineral, HgS, the only commercially useful ore of mercury. It is deposited in veins and impregnations near recent volcanic rocks and hot springs. The mineral itself is used as a red pigment, commonly known as vermilion. Cinnabar is found in the USA (California), Spain (Almadén), Peru, Italy, and Slovenia.
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Cinnabar, or mercury sulphide, is indicative of high level epithermal gold mineralisation at the Bre-X's Busang deposit and CRA-RTZ's Kelian mine down trend to the southwest.
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