History of discovery, properties, areas of application, scale of extraction and consumption, minerals, geochemistry, ore formations, industrial genetic types of deposits, mineral types of ores, methods of enrichment and technological processing of mercury, antimony and bismuth ores, economics of raw materials of these metals are considered. Particular attention is paid to the characterization of the material composition of ores and their mineral associations, the degree of their manufacturability, as well as new sources of production of these metals, including associated metals. For production geologists, mining workers, economists.