This specimen is a sample extracted from the mercury deposits of the Guelma area in Algeria, most likely before the mid-1950s. The accompanying handwritten label indicates that it comes from the Guelma area and from the collection of Jean Chervet (1904-1962). Chervet, whose name identifies the mineral chervetite, was a French mineralogist and collector, and director of the Mineralogy Service of the Atomic Energy Commission in France since 1948.
It is a compact piece of cinnabar, with red powdery crusts and small crystals. It is accompanied by colorless crystals of cerussite and yellow powdery 'bindheimite' (analyzed by SEM-EDS). Probably from Djebel Taya mercury mines. An interesting specimen as a species, provenance, and collection.

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