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Sphalerite, the Glossary

Index Sphalerite

Sphalerite is a sulfide mineral with the chemical formula.[1]

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  1. 141 relations: Alaska, Alston Moor, Australia, Back-arc basin, Baryte, Baxter Springs, Kansas, Binntal, Birefringence, Boulangerite, Brachiopod, Brass, Breitenbrunn, Saxony, British Columbia, Broken Hill ore deposit, Bulgaria, Cadmium, Calcite, Canada, Cananea, Cantabria, Carbonate-hosted lead-zinc ore deposits, Carthage, Tennessee, Chalcopyrite, Chemical formula, Cherokee County, Kansas, Chihuahua (state), China, Cleavage (crystal), Coal, Colombia, Coloradoite, Cubic crystal system, Cumbria, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Diamond, Dolomite (mineral), Eagle County, Colorado, England, Ernst Friedrich Glocker, Flin Flon, Fluorite, Franklin Furnace, Franklin, New Jersey, Freiberg, Freibergite, Galena, Gallium, Galvanization, Gemstone, ... Expand index (91 more) »

  2. Blendes
  3. Minerals described in 1847
  4. Minerals in space group 216
  5. Zincblende crystal structure

Alaska

Alaska is a non-contiguous U.S. state on the northwest extremity of North America.

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Alston Moor

Alston Moor, formerly known as Alston with Garrigill, is a civil parish and electoral ward in the Westmorland and Furness district, in the ceremonial county of Cumbria, England, based around the small town of Alston.

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Australia

Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands.

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Back-arc basin

A back-arc basin is a type of geologic basin, found at some convergent plate boundaries.

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Baryte

Baryte, barite or barytes is a mineral consisting of barium sulfate (BaSO4). Sphalerite and baryte are gemstones and Luminescent minerals.

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Baxter Springs, Kansas

Baxter Springs is a city in Cherokee County, Kansas, United States, and located along Spring River.

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Binntal

The Binn Valley (German: Binntal) is a valley of the Alps, located on the north side of the Lepontine Alps in the Swiss canton of Valais.

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Birefringence

Birefringence is the optical property of a material having a refractive index that depends on the polarization and propagation direction of light.

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Boulangerite

Boulangerite or antimonbleiblende is an uncommon monoclinic orthorhombic sulfosalt mineral, lead antimony sulfide, formula Pb5Sb4S11. Sphalerite and Boulangerite are blendes.

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Brachiopod

Brachiopods, phylum Brachiopoda, are a phylum of trochozoan animals that have hard "valves" (shells) on the upper and lower surfaces, unlike the left and right arrangement in bivalve molluscs.

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Brass

Brass is an alloy of copper and zinc, in proportions which can be varied to achieve different colours and mechanical, electrical, acoustic and chemical properties, but copper typically has the larger proportion, generally 66% copper and 34% zinc.

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Breitenbrunn, Saxony

Breitenbrunn is a community in the Ore Mountains in the district of Erzgebirgskreis in the Free State of Saxony in Germany.

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British Columbia

British Columbia (commonly abbreviated as BC) is the westernmost province of Canada.

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Broken Hill ore deposit

The Broken Hill Ore Deposit is located underneath Broken Hill in western New South Wales, Australia, and is the namesake for the town.

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Bulgaria

Bulgaria, officially the Republic of Bulgaria, is a country in Southeast Europe. Located west of the Black Sea and south of the Danube river, Bulgaria is bordered by Greece and Turkey to the south, Serbia and North Macedonia to the west, and Romania to the north. It covers a territory of and is the 16th largest country in Europe.

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Cadmium

Cadmium is a chemical element; it has symbol Cd and atomic number 48.

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Calcite

Calcite is a carbonate mineral and the most stable polymorph of calcium carbonate (CaCO3). Sphalerite and Calcite are Luminescent minerals.

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Canada

Canada is a country in North America.

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Cananea

Cananea is a city in the Mexican state of Sonora, Northwestern Mexico.

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Cantabria

Cantabria (also) is an autonomous community and province in northern Spain with Santander as its capital city.

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Carbonate-hosted lead-zinc ore deposits

Carbonate-hosted lead-zinc ore deposits are important and highly valuable concentrations of lead and zinc sulfide ores hosted within carbonate (limestone, marl, dolomite) formations and which share a common genetic origin.

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Carthage, Tennessee

Carthage is a town in and the county seat of Smith County, Tennessee, United States; it is part of the Nashville Metropolitan Statistical Area.

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Chalcopyrite

Chalcopyrite is a copper iron sulfide mineral and the most abundant copper ore mineral. Sphalerite and Chalcopyrite are sulfide minerals.

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Chemical formula

A chemical formula is a way of presenting information about the chemical proportions of atoms that constitute a particular chemical compound or molecule, using chemical element symbols, numbers, and sometimes also other symbols, such as parentheses, dashes, brackets, commas and plus (+) and minus (−) signs.

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Cherokee County, Kansas

Cherokee County is a U.S. county located in Southeast Kansas.

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Chihuahua (state)

Chihuahua, officially the Estado Libre y Soberano de Chihuahua (Free and Sovereign State of Chihuahua), is one of the 31 states which, along with Mexico City, comprise the 32 federal entities of Mexico.

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China

China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia.

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Cleavage (crystal)

Cleavage, in mineralogy and materials science, is the tendency of crystalline materials to split along definite crystallographic structural planes.

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Coal

Coal is a combustible black or brownish-black sedimentary rock, formed as rock strata called coal seams.

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Colombia

Colombia, officially the Republic of Colombia, is a country primarily located in South America with insular regions in North America.

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Coloradoite

Coloradoite, also known as mercury telluride (HgTe), is a rare telluride ore associated with metallic deposit (especially gold and silver). Sphalerite and Coloradoite are cubic minerals and minerals in space group 216.

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Cubic crystal system

In crystallography, the cubic (or isometric) crystal system is a crystal system where the unit cell is in the shape of a cube.

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Cumbria

Cumbria is a ceremonial county in North West England.

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Cyprus

Cyprus, officially the Republic of Cyprus, is an island country in the eastern Mediterranean Sea.

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Czech Republic

The Czech Republic, also known as Czechia, is a landlocked country in Central Europe.

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Diamond

Diamond is a solid form of the element carbon with its atoms arranged in a crystal structure called diamond cubic. Sphalerite and diamond are cubic minerals, gemstones and Luminescent minerals.

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Dolomite (mineral)

Dolomite is an anhydrous carbonate mineral composed of calcium magnesium carbonate, ideally The term is also used for a sedimentary carbonate rock composed mostly of the mineral dolomite (see Dolomite (rock)). Sphalerite and dolomite (mineral) are Luminescent minerals.

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Eagle County, Colorado

Eagle County is a county located in the U.S. state of Colorado.

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England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.

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Ernst Friedrich Glocker

Ernst Friedrich Glocker (1 May 1793 – 18 July 1858) was a German mineralogist, geologist, and paleontologist.

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Flin Flon

Flin Flon (pop. 5,185 in 2016 census; 4,982 in Manitoba and 203 in Saskatchewan) is a mining city, located on a correction line on the border of the Canadian provinces of Manitoba and Saskatchewan, with the majority of the city located within Manitoba.

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Fluorite

Fluorite (also called fluorspar) is the mineral form of calcium fluoride, CaF2. Sphalerite and Fluorite are cubic minerals, gemstones and Luminescent minerals.

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Franklin Furnace

Franklin Furnace, also known as the Franklin Mine, is a famous mineral location for rare zinc, iron, manganese minerals in old mines in Franklin, Sussex County, New Jersey, United States.

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Franklin, New Jersey

Franklin is a borough in Sussex County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey.

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Freiberg

Freiberg is a university and former mining town in Saxony, Germany.

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Freibergite

Freibergite is a complex sulfosalt mineral of silver, copper, iron, antimony and arsenic with formula. Sphalerite and Freibergite are cubic minerals.

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Galena

Galena, also called lead glance, is the natural mineral form of lead(II) sulfide (PbS). Sphalerite and Galena are cubic minerals.

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Gallium

Gallium is a chemical element; it has the symbol Ga and atomic number 31.

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Galvanization

Galvanization or galvanizing (also spelled galvanisation or galvanising) is the process of applying a protective zinc coating to steel or iron, to prevent rusting.

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Gemstone

A gemstone (also called a fine gem, jewel, precious stone, semiprecious stone, or simply gem) is a piece of mineral crystal which, when cut or polished, is used to make jewelry or other adornments. Sphalerite and gemstone are gemstones.

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Germanium

Germanium is a chemical element; it has symbol Ge and atomic number 32.

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Germany

Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG), is a country in Central Europe.

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Granite

Granite is a coarse-grained (phaneritic) intrusive igneous rock composed mostly of quartz, alkali feldspar, and plagioclase.

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Harz

The Harz is a highland area in northern Germany.

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Hawleyite

Hawleyite is a rare sulfide mineral in the sphalerite group, dimorphous and easily confused with greenockite. Sphalerite and Hawleyite are cubic minerals, minerals in space group 216 and sulfide minerals.

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Hermann–Mauguin notation

In geometry, Hermann–Mauguin notation is used to represent the symmetry elements in point groups, plane groups and space groups.

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Hexagonal crystal family

In crystallography, the hexagonal crystal family is one of the 6 crystal families, which includes two crystal systems (hexagonal and trigonal) and two lattice systems (hexagonal and rhombohedral).

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Horní Slavkov

Horní Slavkov (Schlaggenwald) is a town in Sokolov District in the Karlovy Vary Region of the Czech Republic.

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Huancavelica

Huancavelica or Wankawillka in Quechua is a city in Peru.

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Hydrothermal mineral deposit

Hydrothermal mineral deposits are accumulations of valuable minerals which formed from hot waters circulating in Earth's crust through fractures.

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Indium

Indium is a chemical element; it has symbol In and atomic number 49.

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International Mineralogical Association

Founded in 1958, the International Mineralogical Association (IMA) is an international group of 40 national societies.

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Iran

Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI), also known as Persia, is a country in West Asia. It borders Turkey to the northwest and Iraq to the west, Azerbaijan, Armenia, the Caspian Sea, and Turkmenistan to the north, Afghanistan to the east, Pakistan to the southeast, the Gulf of Oman and the Persian Gulf to the south.

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Ireland

Ireland (Éire; Ulster-Scots: Airlann) is an island in the North Atlantic Ocean, in north-western Europe.

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Iron

Iron is a chemical element. Sphalerite and Iron are cubic minerals.

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Iron(II) sulfide

Iron(II) sulfide or ferrous sulfide (Br.E. sulphide) is one of a family of chemical compounds and minerals with the approximate formula. Sphalerite and Iron(II) sulfide are sulfide minerals.

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Japan

Japan is an island country in East Asia, located in the Pacific Ocean off the northeast coast of the Asian mainland.

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Jasper County, Missouri

Jasper County is located in the southwest portion of the U.S. state of Missouri.

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Jin dynasty (1115–1234)

The Jin dynasty, officially known as the Great Jin, was an imperial dynasty of China that existed between 1115 and 1234 founded by Emperor Taizu (first).

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Joplin, Missouri

Joplin is a city in Jasper and Newton counties in the southwestern corner of the U.S. state of Missouri.

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Kazakhstan

Kazakhstan, officially the Republic of Kazakhstan, is a landlocked country mostly in Central Asia, with a part in Eastern Europe.

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Kidd Mine

Kidd Mine or Kidd Creek Mine is an underground base metal (copper-zinc-silver) mine north of Timmins, Ontario, Canada.

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Lengenbach Quarry

The Lengenbach Quarry is located in the Binn Valley (Valais, Switzerland) and it is noted among the mineralogical community for its unusual sulfosalt mineral specimens.

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Lincoln Memorial

The Lincoln Memorial is a U.S. national memorial that honors the 16th president of the United States, Abraham Lincoln.

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List of minerals

This is a list of minerals which have Wikipedia articles.

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Madan, Smolyan Province

Madan (Мадан) is a town in Smolyan Province, the very south of Bulgaria in the Yellow Share of the Rhodope Mountains.

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Manganese

Manganese is a chemical element; it has symbol Mn and atomic number 25.

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Manitoba

Manitoba is a province of Canada at the longitudinal centre of the country.

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Marcasite

The mineral marcasite, sometimes called "white iron pyrite", is iron sulfide (FeS2) with orthorhombic crystal structure. Sphalerite and marcasite are sulfide minerals.

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Marmato, Caldas

Marmato is a town and municipality in the Colombian Department of Caldas.

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Mercury (element)

Mercury is a chemical element; it has symbol Hg and atomic number 80.

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Metacinnabar is the cubic form of mercury sulfide (HgS). Sphalerite and Metacinnabar are cubic minerals, minerals in space group 216 and sulfide minerals.

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Mexico

Mexico, officially the United Mexican States, is a country in the southern portion of North America.

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Middle Ages

In the history of Europe, the Middle Ages or medieval period (also spelt mediaeval or mediæval) lasted from approximately 500 to 1500 AD.

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Mohs scale

The Mohs scale of mineral hardness is a qualitative ordinal scale, from 1 to 10, characterizing scratch resistance of minerals through the ability of harder material to scratch softer material.

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Mount Isa Mines

Mount Isa Mines Limited ("MIM") operates the Mount Isa copper, lead, zinc and silver mines near Mount Isa, Queensland, Australia as part of the Glencore group of companies.

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Naica

Naica is a town in the Mexican state of Chihuahua.

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Nanometre

molecular scale. The nanometre (international spelling as used by the International Bureau of Weights and Measures; SI symbol: nm), or nanometer (American spelling), is a unit of length in the International System of Units (SI), equal to one billionth (short scale) of a meter (0.000000001 m) and to 1000 picometres.

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Neudorf, Saxony-Anhalt

Neudorf is a village and a former municipality in the district of Harz, in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany.

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Optical relief

Optical relief (usually noted as simply relief) is a visually observable property in optical mineralogy used to identify minerals based on their refractive index.

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Ottawa County, Oklahoma

Ottawa County is a county located in the northeastern corner of the U.S. state of Oklahoma.

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Příbram

Příbram (Freiberg in Böhmen or Pribram, in 1939–1945 Pibrans) is a town in the Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic.

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Peru

Peru, officially the Republic of Peru, is a country in western South America. It is bordered in the north by Ecuador and Colombia, in the east by Brazil, in the southeast by Bolivia, in the south by Chile, and in the south and west by the Pacific Ocean. Peru is a megadiverse country with habitats ranging from the arid plains of the Pacific coastal region in the west to the peaks of the Andes mountains extending from the north to the southeast of the country to the tropical Amazon basin rainforest in the east with the Amazon River.

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Picher, Oklahoma

Picher is a ghost town and former city in Ottawa County, northeastern Oklahoma, United States.

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Picos de Europa

The Picos de Europa ("Peaks of Europe", also the Picos) are a mountain range extending for about, forming part of the Cantabrian Mountains in northern Spain.

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Pleochroism

Pleochroism is an optical phenomenon in which a substance has different colors when observed at different angles, especially with polarized light.

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Primorsky Krai

Primorsky Krai (lit), informally known as Primorye (Приморье), is a federal subject (a krai) of Russia, part of the Far Eastern Federal District in the Russian Far East.

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Pseudomorph

In mineralogy, a pseudomorph is a mineral or mineral compound that appears in an atypical form (crystal system), resulting from a substitution process in which the appearance and dimensions remain constant, but the original mineral is replaced by another.

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Pyrite

The mineral pyrite, or iron pyrite, also known as fool's gold, is an iron sulfide with the chemical formula FeS2 (iron (II) disulfide). Sphalerite and pyrite are blendes, cubic minerals and sulfide minerals.

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Pyrrhotite

Pyrrhotite (pyrrhos in Greek meaning "flame-coloured") is an iron sulfide mineral with the formula Fe(1-x)S (x . Sphalerite and Pyrrhotite are sulfide minerals.

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Quartz

Quartz is a hard, crystalline mineral composed of silica (silicon dioxide). Sphalerite and Quartz are Luminescent minerals.

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Red Dog mine

The Red Dog mine is a large zinc and lead mine in a remote region of Alaska, about north of Kotzebue, which is owned and operated by the Canadian mining company Teck Resources.

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Refractive index

In optics, the refractive index (or refraction index) of an optical medium is a dimensionless number that gives the indication of the light bending ability of that medium.

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Rhodochrosite

Rhodochrosite is a manganese carbonate mineral with chemical composition MnCO3.

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Rhodope Mountains

The Rhodopes (Родопи, Rodopi; Ροδόπη, Rodopi; Rodoplar) are a mountain range in Southeastern Europe, and the largest by area in Bulgaria, with over 83% of its area in the southern part of the country and the remainder in Greece.

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Rodna

Rodna (formerly Rodna Veche; Óradna, Radna; Altrodenau) is a commune in Bistrița-Năsăud County, Transylvania, Romania.

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Romania

Romania is a country located at the crossroads of Central, Eastern, and Southeast Europe.

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Ruby blende

Ruby blende or garnete blende are two close trivial names for several dissimilar minerals,Krivovichev V. G. Mineralogical glossary. Sphalerite and Ruby blende are blendes, sulfide minerals and zinc minerals.

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Russia

Russia, or the Russian Federation, is a country spanning Eastern Europe and North Asia.

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Santa Eulalia, Chihuahua

Santa Eulalia is a town and seat of the municipality of Aquiles Serdán, in the northern Mexican state of Chihuahua.

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Saxony

Saxony, officially the Free State of Saxony, is a landlocked state of Germany, bordering the states of Brandenburg, Saxony-Anhalt, Thuringia, Bavaria, as well as the countries of Poland and the Czech Republic.

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Sedimentary exhalative deposits

Sedimentary exhalative deposits (SEDEX or SedEx deposits) are zinc-lead deposits originally interpreted to have been formed by discharge of metal-bearing basinal fluids onto the seafloor resulting in the precipitation of mainly stratiform ore, often with thin laminations of sulfide minerals.

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Selenium

Selenium is a chemical element; it has the symbol Se and atomic number 34.

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Skarn

Skarns or tactites are coarse-grained metamorphic rocks that form by replacement of carbonate-bearing rocks during regional or contact metamorphism and metasomatism.

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Smith County, Tennessee

Smith County is a county in the U.S. state of Tennessee.

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Sonora

Sonora, officially Estado Libre y Soberano de Sonora (Free and Sovereign State of Sonora), is one of the 31 states which, along with Mexico City, comprise the Federal Entities of Mexico.

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Space group

In mathematics, physics and chemistry, a space group is the symmetry group of a repeating pattern in space, usually in three dimensions.

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Spain

Spain, formally the Kingdom of Spain, is a country located in Southwestern Europe, with parts of its territory in the Atlantic Ocean, the Mediterranean Sea and Africa.

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Stilleite

Stilleite is a selenide mineral, zinc selenide, with the formula ZnSe. Sphalerite and Stilleite are cubic minerals, minerals in space group 216 and zinc minerals.

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Sulfide mineral

The sulfide minerals are a class of minerals containing sulfide (S2−) or disulfide as the major anion. Sphalerite and sulfide mineral are sulfide minerals.

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Sulfur

Sulfur (also spelled sulphur in British English) is a chemical element; it has symbol S and atomic number 16.

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Sullivan Mine

The Sullivan Mine is a now-closed conventional–mechanized underground mine located in Kimberley, British Columbia, Canada.

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Sweden

Sweden, formally the Kingdom of Sweden, is a Nordic country located on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe.

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Switzerland

Switzerland, officially the Swiss Confederation, is a landlocked country located in west-central Europe.

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Tellurium

Tellurium is a chemical element; it has symbol Te and atomic number 52.

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Tetrahedrite

Tetrahedrite is a copper antimony sulfosalt mineral with formula:. Sphalerite and Tetrahedrite are cubic minerals.

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Tiemannite

Tiemannite is a mineral, mercury selenide, formula HgSe. Sphalerite and Tiemannite are cubic minerals and minerals in space group 216.

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Tomb of the Unknown Soldier

A Tomb of the Unknown Soldier or Tomb of the Unknown Warrior is a monument dedicated to the services of an unknown soldier and to the common memories of all soldiers killed in war.

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Tri-State district

The Tri-State district was a historic lead-zinc mining district located in present-day southwest Missouri, southeast Kansas and northeast Oklahoma.

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Triboluminescence

Triboluminescence is a phenomenon in which light is generated when a material is mechanically pulled apart, ripped, scratched, crushed, or rubbed (see tribology).

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United States

The United States of America (USA or U.S.A.), commonly known as the United States (US or U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America.

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Valais

Valais, more formally, the Canton of Valais, is one of the 26 cantons forming the Swiss Confederation. It is composed of thirteen districts and its capital and largest city is Sion. Valais is situated in the southwestern part of the country. It borders the cantons of Vaud and Bern to the north, the cantons of Uri and Ticino to the east, as well as Italy to the south and France to the west.

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Volcanogenic massive sulfide ore deposit

Volcanogenic massive sulfide ore deposits, also known as VMS ore deposits, are a type of metal sulfide ore deposit, mainly copper-zinc which are associated with and produced by volcanic-associated hydrothermal events in submarine environments.

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Watson Lake, Yukon

Watson Lake is a town in Yukon, Canada, located at mile 635 on the Alaska Highway close to the British Columbia border.

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Wide-bandgap semiconductor

Wide-bandgap semiconductors (also known as WBG semiconductors or WBGSs) are semiconductor materials which have a larger band gap than conventional semiconductors.

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Wurtzite

Wurtzite is a zinc and iron sulfide mineral with the chemical formula, a less frequently encountered structural polymorph form of sphalerite. Sphalerite and Wurtzite are blendes, sulfide minerals and zinc minerals.

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Yukon

Yukon (formerly called the Yukon Territory and referred to as the Yukon) is the smallest and westernmost of Canada's three territories.

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Yule Marble

Yule Marble is a marble of metamorphosed Leadville Limestone found only in the Yule Creek Valley, in the West Elk Mountains of Colorado, southeast of the town of Marble, Colorado.

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Zinc

Zinc is a chemical element with the symbol Zn and atomic number 30.

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Zinc sulfide

Zinc sulfide (or zinc sulphide) is an inorganic compound with the chemical formula of ZnS. Sphalerite and zinc sulfide are Zincblende crystal structure.

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Zinkgruvan

Zinkgruvan is a locality situated in Askersund Municipality, Örebro County, Sweden.

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See also

Blendes

Minerals described in 1847

Minerals in space group 216

Zincblende crystal structure

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sphalerite

Also known as Black-jack ore, False galena, Marmatite, Mock lead, Zinc Blende, Zinc blend, Zinc-blende, Zincblende.

, Germanium, Germany, Granite, Harz, Hawleyite, Hermann–Mauguin notation, Hexagonal crystal family, Horní Slavkov, Huancavelica, Hydrothermal mineral deposit, Indium, International Mineralogical Association, Iran, Ireland, Iron, Iron(II) sulfide, Japan, Jasper County, Missouri, Jin dynasty (1115–1234), Joplin, Missouri, Kazakhstan, Kidd Mine, Lengenbach Quarry, Lincoln Memorial, List of minerals, Madan, Smolyan Province, Manganese, Manitoba, Marcasite, Marmato, Caldas, Mercury (element), Metacinnabar, Mexico, Middle Ages, Mohs scale, Mount Isa Mines, Naica, Nanometre, Neudorf, Saxony-Anhalt, Optical relief, Ottawa County, Oklahoma, Příbram, Peru, Picher, Oklahoma, Picos de Europa, Pleochroism, Primorsky Krai, Pseudomorph, Pyrite, Pyrrhotite, Quartz, Red Dog mine, Refractive index, Rhodochrosite, Rhodope Mountains, Rodna, Romania, Ruby blende, Russia, Santa Eulalia, Chihuahua, Saxony, Sedimentary exhalative deposits, Selenium, Skarn, Smith County, Tennessee, Sonora, Space group, Spain, Stilleite, Sulfide mineral, Sulfur, Sullivan Mine, Sweden, Switzerland, Tellurium, Tetrahedrite, Tiemannite, Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, Tri-State district, Triboluminescence, United States, Valais, Volcanogenic massive sulfide ore deposit, Watson Lake, Yukon, Wide-bandgap semiconductor, Wurtzite, Yukon, Yule Marble, Zinc, Zinc sulfide, Zinkgruvan.