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...

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...

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...

occurs in near-opaque minerals with very high refractive indices, such as sphalerite, cinnabar, anthracite, and cuprite. Vitreous minerals have the lustre...

often showing octahedral forms. It is often associated with the minerals sphalerite, calcite and fluorite. Galena is the main ore of lead, used since ancient...

element, typically a metal. Examples are cinnabar (HgS), an ore of mercury; sphalerite (ZnS), an ore of zinc; cassiterite (SnO2), an ore of tin; and colemanite...

which is mainly derived from the processing of the zinc sulfide mineral sphalerite. Germanite contains gallium, zinc, molybdenum, arsenic, and vanadium as...

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...

hydrothermal vein deposits. It commonly occurs with galena, tetrahedrite, sphalerite, chalcopyrite, pyrite, stibnite, zinkenite, siderite, quartz, rhodochrosite...

and is strongly diamagnetic. Goslarite is formed from the oxidation of sphalerite ((Zn, Fe)S). It was first found in Rammelsberg mine, Goslar, Harz, Germany...

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...

Banded Zn-Pb ore sample with sphalerite (brown) and (silver-grey) galena as main ore minerals and (white) calcite as main gangue mineral...

Missouri, known for producing "tri-state" minerals consisting mainly of sphalerite. The DMV, which includes the city of Washington (coterminous with the...

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...

Mendeleev's prediction, discovered a new element in a sample of the mineral sphalerite, and named it gallium. He isolated the element and began determining its...

Dodecahedral cleavage occurs when there are six cleavage planes in a crystal. Sphalerite has dodecahedral cleavage. Crystal parting occurs when minerals break...

apparent radius because the anion-cation distances are greatest. The sphalerite polymorph of rubidium chloride has not been observed experimentally. This...

Fe-montmorillonite, goethite, hematite, siderite, rhodochrosite, pyrite, sphalerite, anhydrite. The Red Sea is a rich and diverse ecosystem. For example more...

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...

galena PbS was mined as an ore of lead, and the sulphides pyrite FeS2 and sphalerite ZnS were also present. Many carbonates occur there, including ankerite...

Datolite Datolite on sphalerite from San Luis Potosí, Mexico (size: 6.2 x 5.3 x 2.8 cm) General Category Nesosilicate Formula (repeating unit) CaBSiO4(OH)...

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...

mineral of importance, greenockite (CdS), is nearly always associated with sphalerite (ZnS). This association is caused by geochemical similarity between zinc...

occurred in some cases. Main ore minerals in SEDEX deposits are fine-grained sphalerite and galena, chalcopyrite is significant in some deposits; silver-bearing...

banded deposits with irregular concentric protuberances agate, baryte, sphalerite Concentric Circular ring aggregates around a center. This habit is found...

with copper despite chalcopyrite having the same crystal structure as sphalerite. Minor amounts of elements such as silver, gold, cadmium, cobalt, nickel...

Smithsonite Sodalite Soddyite Sonolite Sperrylite Spertiniite Spessartine Sphalerite Spherocobaltite Spinel Spodumene Spurrite Stannite Stannoidite Staurolite...

crystals with better shapes and a higher yield. Cubic boron nitride adopts a sphalerite crystal structure, which can be constructed by replacing every two carbon...

after Germany, his country of birth. Germanium is mined primarily from sphalerite (the primary ore of zinc), though germanium is also recovered commercially...