Bloodstone (orientaljasper), the strip is cinnabar dickite, like chicken because bright red cinnabar (vermilion) named. Soapstone containing cinnabar (cinnabar), quartz, chalcedony 35% -45%. Magnetite, hematite 6-12%. Cinnabar about 5% -8%.
Bloodstone with Shoushan stone, Qingtian stone, Balin tied enjoy Chinese "big four stone" reputation. The main process or used as a seal material sculpture. Chinese jade was first discovered in Zhejiang Changhua soapstone rock. Later it was found Chifeng City, Inner Mongolia Balinyouqi Bahrain Bloodstone. In the 1990s and Guizhou, Shaanxi, Gansu, Sichuan, Hunan, Yunnan 'and Xinjiang discovered soapstone.
Bloodstone and Yellowstone, Qingtian stone cold light known as the Indian stone treasures. Soapstone for the development of China and India to make a unique contribution to culture, while forming a "chicken" carved in jade carving of a unique genre, it works with "magnificent, exquisite, elegant, colorful," said.
Since soapstone production is quite limited, the market price of enduring.
Chinese name English name orientaljasper soapstone red color distribution system crystal stone Zhejiang, Inner Mongolia, heliotrope containing cinnabar (vermilion), quartz, calcite, stibnite, dickite, kaolinite, dolomite and other minerals, and most of the sulfur-containing multiple components like mercury sulfides, and silicate minerals. Different origin, texture component is different, but the components are inseparable, mercury sulfide, there 'iron' olivine composition.
Soapstone from the "ground" and "blood" two components. It is generally considered "blood" mineral composition mainly cinnabar. "Ground" of the composition, such as Bloodstone, the "land" of the mineral component of clay minerals dickite based, also contain considerable amounts of kaolinite, alunite, halloysite, quartz, pyrite Wait. Early on, the ancient literati and bureaucrats on the use of soapstone make this seal is a prestigious chapter material stone. Bahrain soapstone mainly kaolinite and diaspore; while the more delicate texture of frozen black soapstone and soapstone main mineral constituent is frozen Hibiscus dickite and cinnabar; approximately a few years ago found at the top of a gold mine in Jilin "Golden red "dense block of vein quartz, cinnabar which is very small, hard texture and delicate, but also hard stone with cinnabar, cinnabar, said local jade.