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Somebody selling you Red Mercury? Call the cops

 This is Mercury Sulphide, a red crystal used to make ornaments and not the mythical Red Mercury for which the naive part with tidy sums of money. [Stock Image]

For centuries fortune hunters have strived to find Red Mercury just as they did with the elusive fountain of youth.

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