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A cinnabar is a mercuric sulphide, 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.
Subject by: Russell Webb