Cinnabar on Manganite (rare)

Item Description

Rare and truly exceptional combination from the Kalahari that was unknown to me personally: of Cinnabar on Manganite. The Cinnabars are sub mm crystals of an attractive cherry-pink color (think of that yummy cherry medicine many of us had to take as kids!), spread liberally on the lush velvety surface of the Manganite. Rare. Attractive, Aesthetic. Charlie said he had never seen this material but in one pocket, and had it analysed at Harvard as he was not sure what it was at the time. We obtained just a handful of these specimens in his vast collections