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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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

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

is found either as a native metal (rare) or in cinnabar, metacinnabar, sphalerite, corderoite, livingstonite and other minerals, with cinnabar (HgS) being...

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...

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...

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

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...

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

Richter, were looking in a sample of the mineral zinc blende, also known as sphalerite (ZnS), for the spectroscopic lines of the newly discovered element thallium...

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

jasperoid and ore minerals. Veinlet along lower edge of specimen contains sphalerite in carbonates. Pend Oreille mine, Pend Oreille County, Washington...

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

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)...

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...

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

economic amounts of lead and zinc. The zinc was hosted by the mineral sphalerite while lead was hosted by the mineral galena. Silver occurred as a native...

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...