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What is a sphalerite?

What is a sphalerite? Here are some definitions.

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  1. (mineralogy) A yellow, brown or black, sometimes red, green white or colorless mineral with cubic crystals, of a chemical formula (Zn,Fe)S, often containing also minor metals, such as cadmium, gallium, germanium and indium.
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Many choice specimens of sphalerite, calcite, galena, and dolomite could be collected from pillars and small areas not previously mined.
The assemblage present included quartz, chalcopyrite, pyrite, sphalerite, magnetite, and hematite.
Vein minerals are aragonite, barite, calcite, dolomite, quartz, sphalerite, and whewellite.
Chalcopyrite is occasionally found in the manto orebodies as small crystals on sphalerite and pyrite.
Vein minerals are barite, calcite, chalcopyrite, kaolinite, pyrite, sphalerite, and wurtzite.
The cleavage planes between prismatic stibnite crystals have been infilled by sphalerite.

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