sphalerite's Usage Examples:

The large zinc anomalies are caused by the presence of coarse sphalerite and coarse baryte is also common.

The chief ore is zinc blende, or sphalerite (see Blende), which generally contains, in addition to zinc sulphide, small amounts of the sulphides of iron, silver and cadmium.

The principal ores are galena, sphalerite or zinc blende and smithsonite or zinc carbonate, which is locally called "dry bone" and which was the first zinc ore mined in the state.

The sulfide minerals recorded from the lodes comprise pyrite, pyrrhotite, chalcopyrite, galena, sphalerite and arsenopyrite.

galena, PbS; sphalerite, ZnS; chalcopyrite, CuFeS 2.

Wurtzite-sphalerite intergrowths showing the ' ice-fern ' texture, which is characteristic of wurtzite, are intergrown with silver-rich tetrahedrite, tennantite and galena.

Synonyms:

Tl, blende, atomic number 49, mineral, zinc blende, In, indium, atomic number 81, thallium,

Antonyms:

organic,