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Name: Galena RRUFF ID: R070325 Ideal Chemistry: PbS Locality: Cumberland, England Source: James Shigley [view label] Owner: RRUFF Description: Lead-grey metallic cubo-octahedral crystal associated with quartz and calcite Status: The identification of this mineral has been confirmed by X-ray diffraction and chemical analysis |
Mineral Group: [ Rocksalt (18) ] | ||
Quick search: [ All Galena samples (2) ] |
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RRUFF ID: | R070325.1 | |||||||
Sample Description: | Powder | |||||||
Cell Refinement Output: |
a: 5.9373(1)Å b: 5.9373(1)Å c: 5.9373(1)Å alpha: 90° beta: 90° gamma: 90° Volume: 209.30(1)Å3 Crystal System: cubic |
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REFERENCES for Galena | |
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American Mineralogist Crystal Structure Database Record: [view record] |
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Anthony J W, Bideaux R A, Bladh K W, and Nichols M C (1990) Handbook of Mineralogy, Mineral Data Publishing, Tucson Arizona, USA, by permission of the Mineralogical Society of America. [view file] |
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Wallerius J G (1747) in Mineralogia, eller Mineralriket Stockholm [view file] |
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Ramsdell L S (1925) The crystal structure of some metallic sulfides, American Mineralogist, 10, 281-304 [view file] |
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Brown J S (1936) Supergene sphalerite, galena and willemite at Balmat, N.Y., Economic Geology, 31, 331-354 |
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Scott J D (1976) A microprobe-homogeneous intergrowth of galena and matildite from the Nipissing mine, Cobalt, Ontario, The Canadian Mineralogist, 14, 182-184 [view file] |
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Steger H F, Desjardins L E (1980) Oxidation of sulfide minerals. V. Galena, sphalerite and chalcocite, The Canadian Mineralogist, 18, 365-372 [view file] |
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Gasparrini C, Lowell G R (1985) Silver-bearing inclusions in "argentiferous" galena from the Silvermine district in southeastern Missouri, The Canadian Mineralogist, 23, 99-102 [view file] |
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Noda Y, Masumoto K, Ohba S, Saito Y, Toriumi K, Iwata Y, Shibuya I (1987) Temperature dependence of atomic thermal parameters of lead chalcogenides, PbS, PbSe and PbTe, Acta Crystallographica, C43, 1443-1445 |
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Tossell J A, Vaughan D J (1987) Electronic structure and the chemical reactivity of the surface of galena, The Canadian Mineralogist, 25, 381-392 [view file] |
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Foord E E, Shawe D R, Conklin N M (1988) Coexisting galena, PbSss and sulfosalts: evidence for multiple episodes of mineralization in the Round Mountain and Manhattan gold districts, Nevada, The Canadian Mineralogist, 26, 355-376 [view file] |
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Foord E E, Shawe D R (1989) The PbBiAgCu(Hg) chemistry of galena and some associated sulfosalts: a review and some new data from Colorado, California and Pennsylvania, The Canadian Mineralogist, 27, 363-382 [view file] |
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Grice J D, Ferraris G (2003) New minerals approved in 2002 and nomenclature modifications approved in 1998-2002 by the Commission on the New Minerals and Mineral Names, International Mineralogical Association, The Canadian Mineralogist, 41, 795-802 [view file] |
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Ondru P, Veselovský F, Gabaová A, Hlouek J, rein V, Vavrín I, Skála R, Sejkora J, Drábek M (2003) Primary minerals of the Jáchymov ore district, Journal of the Czech Geological Society, 48, 19-147 [view file] |
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de Giudici G, Ricci P, Lattanzi P, Anedda A (2007) Dissolution of the (001) surface of galena: an in situ assessment of surface speciation by fluid-cell micro-Raman spectroscopy, American Mineralogist, 92, 518-524 [view file] |
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Bell K, Zaitsev A N, Spratt J, Frōjdō S, Rukhlov A S (2015) Elemental, lead and sulfur isotopic compositions of galena from Kola carbonatites, Russia - implications for melt and mantle evolution, Mineralogical Magazine, 79, 219-241 |
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George L, Cook N J, Ciobanu C L, Wade B P (2015) Trace and minor elements in galena: a reconnaissance LA-ICP-MS study, American Mineralogist, 100, 548-569 |
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Kei M F, Markl G (2015) Weathering of galena: mineralogical processes, hydrogeochemical fluid path modeling, and estimation of the growth rate of pyromorphite, American Mineralogist, 100, 1584-1594 |
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Gill S B, Piercey S J, Layton-Matthews D (2016) Mineralogy and metal zoning of the Cambrian Zn-Pb-Cu-Ag-Au Lemarchant volcanogenic massive sulfide (VMS) deposit, Newfoundland, The Canadian Mineralogist, 54, 1307-1344 |
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Giebel R J, Gauert C D K, Marks M A W, Costin G, Markl G (2017) Multi-stage formation of REE minerals in the Palabora Carbonatite Complex, South Africa, American Mineralogist, 102, 1218-1233 |
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Markl G, Keim M F, Bayerl R (2019) Unusual mineral diversity in hydrothermal vein-type deposit: The Clara mine, SW Germany, as a type example, The Canadian Mineralogist, 57, 427-456 |
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