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In the orebody galena occurred as large masses associated with pyrite, chalcopyrite, and tennantite.
Vein minerals are barite, calcite, chalcopyrite, galena, pyrite, and sphalerite.
This karsting provides highly permeable rocks in which the sulphide minerals sphalerite and galena represent the valuable mineralization.
The primary ore minerals were not investigated, although galena and pyrite were found as relict masses on several occasions.
Adjacent to the gray quartz with acanthite and gold is sugary white quartz with massive galena.
These crystals are associated with chalcopyrite, galena, quartz, calcite, epidote, and chlorite.
Similarly, silver has been described replacing a variety of silver minerals, pyrite, and galena.
Microcrystals of pyrrhotite, goethite, pyrite, galena, and calcite are found on the dumps.
On the dumps I found galena, pyrite, and rugs full of quartz, dolomite, and a few tiny, water-clear fluorites.
Many choice specimens of sphalerite, calcite, galena, and dolomite could be collected from pillars and small areas not previously mined.
With time and cooling, high-temperature galena cleanses itself of some of the bismuth and silver through the process known as exsolution.
Gold occurs in quartz veins with chalcopyrite, galena, pyrite, and sphalerite.
The pods were composed of large masses of black sphalerite containing vugs of petzite on gold, galena, rhodochrosite, chalcopyrite, and pyrite.
As already mentioned, lead occurs in British Columbia, mainly in the form of argentiferous galena or silver lead ores.
Some of the richer argentiferous galena pockets contained masses of mineral three or four inches in size.
The total production to 1926 was about 5,000,000 tonnes of argentiferous galena from around 300 mines and prospects.
One quick stop was made at the abandoned New First of May mine, where on the ore pile we found galena, pyrite, arsenopyrite, and fluorite.
The main ore minerals are galena, chalcopyrite, sphalerite, and tetrahedrite that are associated with quartz and barite gangue.
We have also noted clumps of small marcasite crystals as a late-stage association with galena and drusy quartz from the Eagle mine.
Other minerals mentioned from the mine by Dunham include galena, sphalerite, pyrite, chalcedony, and minor marcasite and pyrrhotite.
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The ores are argentiferous galena, accompanied by considerable amounts of blende and pyrites, all oxidized near the surface.
With the point of his pick he had hooked out a lump of galena as big as his head!
In this condition the Oneida was pulled past the forts by her consort, the galena.
The argentiferous galena has in general all the external characters of pure galena.
They gave us many little bags of margarite and pulverized galena, with which they rub the face.
The sulphur of the galena falls to the bottom of the bath, and may be separated from the gangue by solution in carbon disulphide.
We took a steamer from galena to Stillwater, as everyone did in those days.
The galena was managed and fought with great skill and daring.
We drove in wagons with boards across for seats from Milwaukee to galena.
They proved to be a miner who had gone from galena and a stout lad.
And do you suppose Yetmore recognized the sand as galena ore?
I'll write to my grandfather and ask him to send a horse to galena for me.
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