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Sphalerite is a
sulfide mineral with the
chemical formula (Zn, Fe)S. It is the most
important ore of zinc.
Sphalerite is
found in a
variety of deposit...
- main form of zinc
found in nature,
where it
mainly occurs as the
mineral sphalerite.
Although this
mineral is
usually black because of
various impurities...
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structural polymorph form of
sphalerite. The iron
content is
variable up to
eight percent. It is
trimorphous with
matraite and
sphalerite. It
occurs in hydrothermal...
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occurs in near-opaque
minerals with very high
refractive indices, such as
sphalerite, cinnabar, anthracite, and cuprite.
Vitreous minerals have the lustre...
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often showing octahedral forms. It is
often ****ociated with the
minerals sphalerite,
calcite and fluorite.
Galena is the main ore of lead, used
since ancient...
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rather as gallium(III)
compounds in
trace amounts in zinc ores (such as
sphalerite) and in bauxite.
Elemental gallium is a
liquid at
temperatures greater...
- Earth's
crust and has five
stable isotopes. The most
common zinc ore is
sphalerite (zinc blende), a zinc
sulfide mineral. The
largest workable lodes are...
- element,
typically a metal.
Examples are
cinnabar (HgS), an ore of mercury;
sphalerite (ZnS), an ore of zinc; c****iterite (SnO2), an ore of tin; and colemanite...
- deposits. The
mined ore is
processed with gold cyanidation.
Pyrite and
sphalerite are the main
sulfide minerals found in the 120-meter
thick volcanic conglomerates...
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structure (also
written "zinc blende") is
named after the
mineral zincblende (
sphalerite), one form of zinc
sulfide (β-ZnS). As in the rock-salt structure, the...
