Metals

These pages provide infos on the metals and minerals exploited in the Far Southwest of China. The metals are presented in the order of their appearance in the historical record; the other minerals are added without particular order. The reason for including some none-metallic minerals is that they were of considerable economic importance and extraction technologies overlapped.

• Copper 铜
• Tin 锡
• Gold 金
• Silver 银
• Lead 铅 (黑铅)
• Iron 铁
• Baitong 白铜, i.e. Cupronickel
• Zinc 锌 (白铅、倭铅)
• Cobalt 钴 (碗花)
• Mercury and cinnaber 水银、朱砂
• Orpiment 石黄
• Sulphur and saltpetre 硫磺、硝
• Gems 宝石