As of January 9, 2020, cinnabar ranges from $5-35 a gram.

China is one of the countries that produce the most cinnabar in the world. The main production areas are eastern Guizhou and western Hunan, famous for its good quality and large quantity. Most of the output of the mineral sand to the west of Hunan Chenxi, and then resold all over the country, Chenxi became the main distribution center of the cinnabar at that time, "cinnabar" a name also comes from.

The world's largest cinnabar crystals is the "King of Cinnabar", which was found in 1980 in the Wanshan Mercury Mining Area in eastern Guizhou. Length 10.8 centimeters, width 4.4 centimeters, height 4.2 centimeters, net weight 237 grams. It is now in the Geological Museum in Beijing, China.

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The sand is chemically mercuric sulphide, containing 86.2% Hg, and often contains impurities such as clay, iron oxide, and ground pitch. Dissolves in hydrochloric acid and produces hydrogen sulfide with rotten egg odor.

Tripartite crystal system, the crystals are plate-like or rhombichedral, the aggregate is irregular granular, dense block or earthy, the clusters are often rhombic bicrystals, large particles of single crystals. Translucent or opaque, bright red, vermilion, light red, dark red or streak red, sometimes the surface with lead gray FOH color.

Cinnabar is the most widely distributed mercury mineral, produced in China's Hunan, Guizhou, Yunnan, as well as the western United States, Spain, Mexico and other places. Cinnabar crystal surface sometimes show lead gray color of FOH, crystal surface for diamond luster, translucent to opaque, relative density 8 to 8.2, non-conductive. Containing cinnabar bands of dikai stone, is well-known in China and abroad, one of China's famous seal stone of chicken blood stone.

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