sphaleriten.
Mineralogy.
Zinc-blende.
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1868 in H. Watts Dict. Chem.
1871 Jrnl. Chem. Soc. 24 312 (heading) On the occurrence of thallium in sphalerite from Geroldseck (Breisgau).
1925 A. S. Alexander Tramps across Watersheds v. 235 Some of these minerals and ores are:—gold, silver bloom, galena or lead ore, blende or sphalerite or zinc ore..and a great variety of quartz.
1952 L. G. Berry et al. in Amer. Mineralogist 37 438 Robinsonite occurs as a primary mineral with pyrite, sphalerite, stibnite, and boulangerite in small pieces in oxidized ore bodies at the Red Bird mercury mine, Pershing County, Nevada.
1969 G. M. Bennison & A. E. Wright Geol. Hist. Brit. Isles x. 247 The later, mesothermal, lodes..carry such minerals as galena and sphalerite with a little uranium ore as well.
1973 Times 1 Dec. 11/3 ‘This piece’, he said, indicating a toffee-coloured chunk of sphalerite from Picos de Europa, Santander, Spain, ‘was brought up from the mine for me by a local dealer’.
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