Cinnabar
Bright red mercury sulfide, the main mercury ore, used since antiquity as a pigment (vermilion).
Composition
HgS; trigonal; 86.2% Hg.
Sources
In the atlas
- Almadén Spain
- Wanshan China
- Xunyang China
- Suii Japan
- California Coast Ranges (Hg district) United States
- Idrija Slovenia
- Monte Amiata Italy
- Terlingua United States
- McDermitt United States