我国汞矿的开采历史是非常悠久的,远在公元前三世纪的秦代文献中,就已经提到开采西蜀丹青了,到了西汉,更记录有江南出丹砂的材料。汞被广泛地用于采矿业和国防工业、仪器、照明和机械等制造业中,用途日益广泛,是工业上不可缺的原料。 China’s mercury mining history is very long, as far back as the third century BC in the Qin literature, it has been mentioned in the exploitation of Xishu Danqing, to the Western Han Dynasty, but also recorded a red sand south of the material. Mercury is widely used in manufacturing industries such as mining and defense industries, instruments, lighting and machinery for a growing variety of uses and is an industrially indispensable raw material.