Cinnabar, also known as Cinnabar, Cinnabar and Mercury Sand, is a kind of mercury sulfide mineral, and its main element is mercury. Mercury sulfide is used when making cinnabar, which contains impurities such as clay and iron oxide. When making mercury, it is mainly extracted from cinnabar raw materials.
China is one of the countries that produce the most ghost fairy cinnabar in the world. The main producing areas are eastern Guizhou and western Hunan, which are famous for their good quality and large quantity. Most of the ore produced is transported to Chenxi in western Hunan and then sold all over the country. Chenxi became the main distribution center of cinnabar at that time, and a "cinnabar" came from it.
The world's largest cinnabar crystal is the "King of Cinnabar", which was found in 1980 Wanshan mercury mining area in eastern Guizhou. Length10.8cm, width 4.4cm, height 4.2cm, net weight 237g ... Now it is collected in China, Beijing and geological museum.
Cinnabar related information
Nature is magnificent and magical. All kinds of mineral single crystals, continuous crystals and crystal clusters with strange shapes, gorgeous colors and rare output are precious mineral raw materials and subtle, simple and beautiful ornamental stones. They are a generous gift from nature to mankind. Cinnabar, also known as "Cinnabar", is a reddish-brown colored stone.
Neolithic ancestors used cinnabar as a pigment. The main chemical component of cinnabar is mercury sulfide, which is produced in Hunan, Guizhou and Sichuan provinces of China. The crystal of cinnabar is tabular or rhombic, and its aggregate is granular or massive. Pure cinnabar has a metallic luster. Sometimes the surface will appear lead gray due to the oxide film.
Cinnabar is dense, similar to silver, only occurs in low-temperature hydrothermal deposits, and often coexists with stibnite. Cinnabar is the main mineral raw material for extracting mercury. Cinnabar single crystal can be used as laser modulation crystal, which is one of the key materials of modern laser technology.
The above contents refer to Baidu Encyclopedia-Cinnabar.