We will also archive these so that you can access them from time to time and use them as a reference list. Cinnabar Cinnabar is one of my favorite minerals. Until recently, nice crystals of cinnabar from China arguably the best in the world were hard to come by. Now they can be obtained for very reasonable prices. Some of the first specimens to come out were fakes with twinned cinnabar crystals glued onto quartz or dolomite matrix's that were carefully prepared.
Cinnabar is one of the few sulfides that can be transparent.
Others that come to mind are sphalerite, realgar, and orpiment. This assemblage of minerals often occurs above hot springs style gold mineralization.