Cinnabar is a mercuric sulfide mineral, consisting of about 86% mercuric sulfide with about 14% impurities and other components. Its color is bright, luster is varied, appearance is beautiful, often made into jewelry or carving pieces. Because the main component is mercury sulfide, cinnabar is also commonly used in the refining of mercury, cinnabar is the main mineral material for the refining of mercury. Its abundant production can supply cinnabar for various purposes.

Cinnabar is a mercuric sulfide mineral, also known as cinnabar, dansha, dansu, chidan, and its main ingredient mercuric sulfide in cinnabar accounted for about 86% of the remaining components are often clay, iron oxide, ground asphalt and other impurities.

The color of cinnabar is bright and pure, often bright red, light red, dark red, vermilion, with a variety of luster, the surface often has a diamond luster, glass luster or metallic luster, and the whole is semi-transparent or opaque, which can be made into ornaments or carvings.

When making jewelry, you need to avoid bumping into the cinnabar. The hardness of cinnabar is 2 to 2.5, the nature of the brittle, and the impact of hard objects, the surface is easy to be bumped or scratched. Made of carvings, cinnabar is often seals, paperweights or ornaments, each time the use of finished, need to put it back to its original position, carefully preserved.

In addition, cinnabar can also be used in the refining of mercury, cinnabar is the main mineral material for the refining of mercury, will be heated, a ton of cinnabar can be smelted out at least two kilograms of mercury. Its origins are Hunan, China, Guizhou, China, Almaden, Spain, Eudrio, Italy, and California, U.S.A., etc., which are rich in origin and not low in production, and can supply cinnabar to be used for various purposes.