Material: Cinnabar Quartz (11.5mm) Origin: Madagascar Size: Approximately 11.5mm (±0.5mm) Wrist Size: Approximately 16.5cm (elastic) Weight: Approximately 40g Features/Meaning: A great value item of a popular power stone! The flowing marble pattern created by the combination of mercury and sulfur is beautiful and impressive! Thin cinnabar streaks are present on a milky pink background. Cinnabar is a sulfide mineral used as a red pigment and for mercury (Hg) ore. It occurs as opaque reddish-brown masses or as transparent, deep red rhombohedral crystals. It came to be called cinnabar because it was produced in Chenzhou (present-day Hunan Province) in China. Due to its color, it is also called vermilion. In China, it was believed to be a miraculous medicine for immortality. It also has the alias "Philosopher's Stone" and is considered to have been a mineral deeply related to alchemy. It is said that the Philosopher's Stone that appears in "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" is cinnabar, and its English name is thought to be derived from the Sanskrit word meaning "red resin." Product Number: BG5874-115