Sphalerite is a very cool mineral. It is a beautiful, complex and diverse zinc sulfide (ZnS) mineral that also hosts a treasure trove of other critical elements. These include manganese ...

Happy Mineral Monday! This week, learn about the mineral sphalerite and its many shades of green. Did you know sphalerite is one of a select group of minerals that fluoresce under a black light? Watch ...

Professor Chris Gammons and Ph.D. student Celine Beaucamp are studying sphalerite. Beaucamp has been studying the mineral since 2020, and found that they fluoresce vivid colors under a UV light ...

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It hosts a high-density of veins and stockwork with substantial amounts of sulphides intercepted, including sphalerite (1%), galena (1%) and containing sections of semi-massive pyrrhotite and ...

Zinc sulfide (ZnS), a naturally occurring salt, is the main source of zinc. It has two common crystalline forms (polymorphs): Sphalerite (“zinc blende”), with a cubic crystal structure, is the form ...

Cubic hawleyite, the other polymorph of Cadmium Sulfide, is a rare sulfide mineral in the sphalerite group, dimorphous and easily confused with greenockite (mentioned above). Chemically, it is cadmium ...

As we move towards the low carbon future, the demand for metals (such as lithium, cobalt, nickel, copper, zinc, the platinum group elements and the rare earth elements) is rising dramatically. This is ...