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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...
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    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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  • occurs in near-opaque minerals with very high refractive indices, such as sphalerite, cinnabar, anthracite, and cuprite. Vitreous minerals have the lustre...
    12 KB (1,158 words) - 23:55, 17 May 2025
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    by-product during the processing of the ores of other metals, chiefly from sphalerite and other zinc sulfide ores. Indium has no biological role and its compounds...
    47 KB (5,668 words) - 11:37, 25 May 2025
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    after Germany, his country of birth. Germanium is mined primarily from sphalerite (the primary ore of zinc), though germanium is also recovered commercially...
    68 KB (7,216 words) - 10:01, 27 May 2025
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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...
    5 KB (358 words) - 20:10, 8 April 2024
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    hydrothermal vein deposits. It commonly occurs with galena, tetrahedrite, sphalerite, chalcopyrite, pyrite, stibnite, zinkenite, siderite, quartz, rhodochrosite...
    5 KB (492 words) - 03:58, 31 October 2024
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    often showing octahedral forms. It is often associated with the minerals sphalerite, calcite and fluorite. As a pure specimen held in the hand, under standard...
    17 KB (1,647 words) - 09:54, 27 May 2025
  • sedimentary rocks that have undergone metamorphism. Associated minerals include sphalerite, cassiterite, siderite and briartite. Earth sciences portal List of minerals...
    2 KB (102 words) - 05:52, 30 January 2023
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    It is also isostructural with sphalerite at low temperatures. It occurs with other sulfide minerals such as sphalerite and galena, and is the only ore...
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    lubricant and an additive to cosmetic products. The cubic (zincblende aka sphalerite structure) variety analogous to diamond is called c-BN; it is softer than...
    77 KB (8,199 words) - 22:14, 7 May 2025
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    fluorite structure being intermediate between the caesium chloride and sphalerite structures is reflected in the Madelung constants. It is assumed for the...
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    parameter Ref. MgPo nickeline (NiAs) a = 434.5 pm c = 707.7 pm BePo sphalerite (ZnS) 582.7 pm CdPo sphalerite (ZnS) 666.5 pm ZnPo sphalerite (ZnS) 628(2) pm...
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    Hawleyite is a rare sulfide mineral in the sphalerite group, dimorphous and easily confused with greenockite. Chemically, it is cadmium sulfide, and occurs...
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    native arsenic, native gold, proustite, rhodochrosite, arsenopyrite, sphalerite, tetrahedrite, calaverite, tellurobismuthite, galena and pyrite. "Nagyágite"...
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  • Missouri, known for producing "tri-state" minerals consisting mainly of sphalerite. The DMV, which includes the city of Washington (coterminous with the...
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    which is mainly derived from the processing of the zinc sulfide mineral sphalerite. Germanite contains gallium, zinc, molybdenum, arsenic, and vanadium as...
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    minerals are tennantite‐tetrahedrite (containing most of the silver), sphalerite, galena, and chalcopyrite. Silver is also found in pyrargyrite, proustite...
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    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...
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    Hardwood 2–2.5 Plastic 2.5 Zinc 2.5–3 Copper 3 Brass 3.5 Adamite 3.5–4 Sphalerite 4 Iron 4–4.5 Ordinary steel 4.5 Colemanite 5 Apatite 5–5.5 Goethite 5...
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