秦皇陵中的水银——是否有水银,水银来自何方

Mercury in Qin Mausoleum: Whether there existed mercury and whence the mercury

《史记》记载秦皇陵中存在大量的水银，考古学家对此存在较大的争议。利用地球化学地球物理方法证明，在秦皇陵中有水银存在，汞气测量在秦皇陵中存在非常强的汞异常。通过理论推算，若真如记栽秦皇陵中以山水为百川，则其用量为300～2500t，如此巨大的水银从何而来？通过对古代几个汞矿的分析和地球化学块体推算，单靠陕西省旬阳公馆镇的汞矿无法供给如此巨大的水银，而重庆酉阳的地球化学块体蕴含巨量的汞，可能也是秦皇陵中水银的重要来源。

According to ＂Historical Records＂, there existed large amounts of mercury in Qin Mausoleurn; nevertheless, over this problem there is still much disagreement among archaeologists. Geochemical and geophysical survey shows that there does exist strong mercury in Qin Mausoleum. A strong mercury anomaly was detected over Qin Mausoleum by mercury vapors survey. If water from the mountain was really used as rivers in Qin Mausoleum as recorded by historical documents, there should exist 300 tons to 2500 tons of mercury in it. Where did these large quantifies of mercury from come？ The Xunyang mercury deposit could not supply such huge amounts of mercury, and hence the giant geochemical block in Youyang of Chongqing was probably one of the important mercury sources for Qin Mausoleum.