>>40546085 (OP)Nigger, go to a mountain and find some cinnabar. It's that pocky, ruddy and crumbly gravel stone of volcanic origin that is common in uplands. Get a pot that can take some serious heat, and fill it with crushed cinnabar and a little water and stick it on a hot fire. Mercury will burst out of the cinnabar.
As an added trick, you can add a bunch of mercury to crushed quartz or silt and it will form alloys out of all metals it touches, like gold. Pour off the excess mercury and melt the alloy. The mercury sublimated out, leaving refined ore.
DO NOT BREATHE THE GAS.
Mercury is actually relatively harmless to handle. It isn't really toxic to touch or even eat it. But when you breathe it, it causes a ridiculous amount of damage to your neurological system.
If you want to handle mercury, make sure the ventilation is really good and do not breathe the gas. Mercury is very useful. If you want to play with it, burn it off some cinnabar. It's very easy. Literally burn it off rocks.