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Definition of Tetrahedrite
1. n. A sulphide of antimony and copper, with small quantities of other metals. It is a very common ore of copper, and some varieties yield a considerable presentage of silver. Called also gray copper ore, fahlore, and panabase.
Definition of Tetrahedrite
1. Noun. (minerology) A complex ore of copper, a mixed sulfide of copper, iron, zinc, silver and antimony. ¹
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Definition of Tetrahedrite
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Literary usage of Tetrahedrite
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Mineral Deposits by Waldemar Lindgren (1919)
"The two ore minerals most common in silver deposits are galena and tetrahedrite;
with these zinc blende is usually associated. Galena and zinc blende may so ..."
2. Mineralogy: An Introduction to the Scientific Study of Minerals by Henry Alexander Miers (1902)
"tetrahedrite is sometimes twinned on (111), one crystal having the Kig.
469.—tetrahedrite, a {111}. n {211},d {110}, u {111}. edges and corners of smaller ..."
3. Guide to the Mineral Collections in the Illinois State Museum by Alja Robinson Crook, Illinois State Museum (1920)
"So definite are they in crystal habit that they have been chosen to furnish the
name of a crystal class, the tetrahedrite class (already illustrated by the ..."
4. Guide to the Mineral Collections in the Illinois State Museum by Illinois State Museum, Alja Robinson Crook (1920)
"tetrahedrite GROUP 'In this group are two well-crystallized copper minerals, ...
Characteristic form of tetrahedrite. tetrahedron (1n) with edges beveled by ..."
5. Ore Dressing by Robert Hallowell Richards (1903)
"The mill runs 24 hours per day, 7 days per week. The ore consists of the economic
minerals argentiferous galena, tetrahedrite, pyrite, ..."
6. Ore Dressing by Robert Hallowell Richards (1906)
"Some tetrahedrite is picked off the surface and sent to (3). Ore is drawn from
only one bin at a time. By gate to (2). 3. From (1) and (2). Two No. ..."
7. Ore Dressing: In Four Volumes & Index by Robert Hallowell Richards (1903)
"The ore consists of the economic minerals argentiferous galena, tetrahedrite,
pyrite, blende, a little chalcopyrite and a gangue of quartz and porphyry. ..."
8. Mineralogy and Chemistry by John Lawrence Smith (1873)
"The faces on the tetrahedrite were small, but beautiful and very numerous; from
the number on the fragment examined there would not have been less than from ..."
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