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Colours of Almaden

2 colours tied to Almaden, Spain: made there, traded there or named after it.

Red Cinnabar A scarlet to brick-red mineral and the main source of mercury and vermilion pigmentColour named from nature · 🇪🇸 Spain +5

#E34234 Vermilion A brilliant orange-red pigment, once made from toxic mercury orePigment · 🇹🇷 Turkey +5

Photo credits on this page

The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.

Cinnabar: H. Zell, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
Vermilion: عُثمان, CC0, source

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