Cinnebar is a mineral. Here is an excellent article:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinnabar <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinnabar>(Similar page in French: http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinabre)
On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 1:56 PM, <hcarteau_at_LvvSc9YOYu9teAfnIRajtv65kYEY780UF7jUda99bDNJMA-6TZyGKQTBGG9C16tzZoK68hRU3XW6tb8.yahoo.invalid> wrote:
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> Selon roadsgoeveron <daveolloyd_at_qsNRHo0EwgS82ORfmylq6J8XcGKPKIkcVasWBm-UY0IHEJwLXikntHbv8b_9l1xODgAhA4jqloY3.yahoo.invalid <daveolloyd%40aol.com>>:
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> > Aluminum can logically be found anywhere the sea gods were defeated
> (killed)
> > during the Godtime and left their bones behind. (This is also why you
> find
> > it on land). IIRC, at least a couple of sources have stories (or maps)
> about
> > the Thunder Brothers reclaiming lands from the sea to the southwest of
> Dragon
> > Pass, so I suspect that Wenelia is actually a good place to find
> aluminum.
> > There is also a mine in Erigia, I think, although that's a bit far from
> > Wenelia.
> /// Ah, good suggestion. Now all I need is dream up some site in Wenelia
> where a
> sea god died and have the PCs take control of it. Facing some opposition of
> course. For instance, somewhere in the battle zone between Greymane and
> Esrolia.
> That'd make mining difficult.
>
> > In the real world, aluminum was very hard to mine (or refine) until
> modern
> > times. Quicksilver is refined from cinnabar, I believe, and has been
> mined
> > since ancient times.
> /// I must admit I' not sure what cinnabar is. It's red and was used as a
> dye,
> isn't it mercury-based ? Come to think of it, isn't quicksilver another
> name for
> mercury ?
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