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Definition of Chalcocite
1. Noun. A heavy grey mineral that is an ore of copper.
Definition of Chalcocite
1. n. Native copper sulphide, called also copper glance, and vitreous copper; a mineral of a black color and metallic luster.
Definition of Chalcocite
1. Noun. (minerology) Cuprous sulphide, Cu2S, an important ore of copper. ¹
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Definition of Chalcocite
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Chalcocite
Literary usage of Chalcocite
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Transactions by American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical, and Petroleum Engineers, Metallurgical Society of AIME, Society of Mining Engineers of AIME., Society for Mining, Metallurgy, and Exploration (U.S.). (1916)
"In the masses referred to as carrying very little chalcocite, it is prob- ' able
that there was considerable chalcocite present, but it was covered by a ..."
2. Transactions of the American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical and (1922)
"chalcocite Zone. —The sulfide ore of the United Verde Extension consists chiefly
of chalcocite and pyrite and varies from practically pure chalcocite to ..."
3. Transactions of the American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical and (1917)
"Copper minerals in the siderite zone are very faintly coated with chalcocite.
Gypsum is also found in vugs, even deeper than siderite, but apparently in ..."
4. Mineral Deposits by Waldemar Lindgren (1919)
"This probably explains the development of covellite in oxidizing chalcocite and
its occasional crystallization together with products of oxidation like ..."
5. The Examination of Prospects: A Mining Geology by Charles Godfrey Gunther (1912)
"AT MORENCI, ARIZONA, the upper limit of the chalcocite zone in the disseminated
deposits ... The thickness of the chalcocite zone is somewhat over 200 ft., ..."
6. Proceedings of the Good Roads Institute, Held at the University of North by University of North Carolina (1793-1962, Good Roads Institute, Chapel Hill, N.C., University of North Carolina (1793-1962), Chapel Hill Good Roads Institute, N.C (1908)
"In the center of many of these chalcocite-filled fractures are films of quartz
which evidently mark the original fracture in which the chalcocite began to ..."
7. The Geology and Ore Deposits of the Virgilina District of Virginia and North by Francis Baker Laney (1917)
"Indeed, it is doubtful that chalcocite is even subordinate to bornite. In the
Holloway mine, so far as could be determined, chalcocite was by far the more ..."
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