blende

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A name given by English miners to sphalerite, or zinc blende; Ð called also false galena.

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There it forms a large deposit, in a granitic vein running through gneiss, and is accompanied by quartz, siderite, galena, blende, chalcopyrite, &c.

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In the first are found veins of calcite and quartz from half-an-inch to three inches thick, in which especially in the calcite the gold is visible mixed with iron and copper pyrites, galena and blende.

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The ores are argentiferous galena, accompanied by considerable amounts of blende and pyrites, all oxidized near the surface.

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Magnetic pyrites, copper pyrites, zinc blende and arsenical pyrites are other and less important examples, the last constituting the gold ore formerly worked in Silesia.

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